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We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913)

3w ago

We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

1mo ago

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Do Not Spare Yourself

To try to save ourselves from the despair by which we contour hope, to spare ourselves the fertile doubt and the gasps of self-surprise by which we discover who we really are, is to live a safe distance from alive.

2mo ago

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

2mo ago

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The Romantic Education Edition

Reflecting on these efforts, it strikes me that in much the same way I would fill in all the action in a comic book between the panels, I was reaching to understand adult relations—an unchartered land of intrigue, heartbreak and some little thing called "love". There was no guide, there was no chatbot to inquire of.

4mo ago

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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

Read your way from one sympathy to another… Follow your own intuitive feeling about what you need.

6mo ago

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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

Perhaps the sharpest, most recurrent shock of being alive is the realization that no one can give you a ready-made answer — not your parents or your teachers, not scripture or Stoicism, not psychotherapy or psilocybin, not the old dharma teacher or the new pope.

6mo ago

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

6mo ago

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