There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
― Walter Benjamin
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Behind every man’s external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart.
~ Walter Bagehot
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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
~ William Gibson
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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
― Walter Benjamin
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others.
~ William Gibson
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
― Walter Benjamin
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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Macworld – January 2009
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