And so it goes...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: classics
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane AustenTag: classics
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: humor satire vanity classics
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
John RuskinTag: books classics popularity
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Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Tag: classics latin ancient-rome horace
A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.
Tag: philosophy classics latin ancient-rome lucretius
She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, there is Heaven, Hell, Annihilation—one or other of those large things, that huge scenic background of stars, fires, blue or black air. All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all. But in the twilight of the double vision, a spiritual muddledom is set up for which no high-sounding words can be found; we can neither act nor refrain from action, we can neither ignore nor respect Infinity.
E.M. ForsterTag: classics
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
E.M. ForsterA classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo CalvinoTag: words reading books literature meaning classics
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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