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The left, paralyzed by his multicultural background, had never been able to fight him, or so much as mention his name.
Michel Houellebecq • Submission
“Only the greatest art,” Murdoch noted, “invigorates without consoling.”
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
But she was acidly disappointed by the price her double—“The Dark Lady of American Letters,” “The Sibyl of Manhattan”—exacted. She confessed that she’d hoped “being famous would be more fun,”9
Benjamin Moser • Sontag
Benjamin’s library was a personal monument, the same kind that we all construct of things we like or identify with. Its importance was dependent on permanence — collections are made up of things that we own, that don’t go away unless we decide they should. “Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects,” Benjamin wrote. “... See more
Kyle Chayka • Essay: The digital death of collecting
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