January 2011
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born...
– Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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In short, the question whether life is accompanied with a greater quantity of...
– “On the Love of Life” by William Hazlitt (1817)
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When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world,...
– The Prelude by William Wordsworth
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back in Camden
drinking tea made with a teabag that I bought in Australia last April (and found this morning in my still not entirely unpacked bag).
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the glorious moment when
you buy something online and it fits to perfection
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Einstein on the concept of ‘God’. (from Letters of Note)
Princeton, 3. 1. 1954 Dear Mr Gutkind, Inspired by Brouwer’s repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me … With regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from...