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Thursday Quotables
May. 30th, 2024 02:22 pm
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To get rid of what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a closet or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? If things had feelings, they would certainly not be happy. Free them from the prison to which you have relegated them. Help them leave that deserted isle to which you have exiled them. Let them go, with gratitude. Not only you, but your things as well, will feel clear and refreshed when you are done tidying.
― Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Thursday Quotables
Aug. 24th, 2023 12:56 pm“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
From The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien,
Thursday Quotables
Apr. 27th, 2023 04:29 pmHardly ever in my life had I felt disposed to honour one of my fellow-creatures with any especial degree of liking or approval; and when, for once, I had been moved to do so, it seemed as if the individual thus distinguished ought certainly to have felt some corresponding amount of inclination for me. Yet this had not been the case, since Kitty Mervyn had forgotten me, though I had not forgotten her.
- Jill by Amy Dillwyn
Thursday Quotables
Sep. 22nd, 2022 01:19 pmEgotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
From The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce,
Thursday Quotables
Sep. 1st, 2022 11:49 pm"That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don’t love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good."
From Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Quote of the Day
Aug. 12th, 2022 08:26 am“For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.”
- Grand Inquisitor, from The Brothers Karamozov
- Grand Inquisitor, from The Brothers Karamozov
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
From If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (1979; trans. William Weaver)
Among his work, I have read The Complete Cosmicomics, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Difficult Loves, Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveler and Six Memos for the Next Millennium. I really enjoy his experimentation with style, structure and topics.
