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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: What’s done is done.
M. L. Rio • If We Were Villains: A Novel
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by a
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You can’t sensibly inquire whether a whore is witty.
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
in accordance with William Blake’s principle that “The fool who persists in his folly will become wise,”
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes,” and Edmund answers--you remember, he's wounded, he's dying--”Thou hast spoken right; 'tis true. The wheel is come full circle; I am here.”