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In a quote often attributed to the American poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Many people die with their music still in them.”
Adriana Barton • Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
“People need routines. It’s like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. In the present situation, you don’t want to move from where you are now. At least until the end of the year you have refused to move to a safer location – be
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
HOW MUCH LONELINESS THE TRUTH CAN CAUSE
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Man’s identification with his idea of himself gives him a specious and precarious sense of permanence. For this idea is relatively fixed, being based upon carefully selected memories of his past, memories which have a preserved and fixed character. Social convention encourages the fixity of the idea because the very usefulness of symbols depends up
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
pragmatist.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
AT THIS POINT HE’S A FACELESS CLIENT
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Heidegger argues rather persuasively and beautifully that the only thing universal to our experience is death—“being”
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
Like a merciful cloak, paralysis enveloped his body.