Thursday, August 24, 2006

Thoreau

-We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

-Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.


-Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify.

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