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The Three-Cornered World
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Control yourself, you just found another possible 5-star book, which connects so perfectly with the experience you just had with The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry that the result is this year's most harmonic sequence. Don't share every line you're highlighting; it's bad form.
April 6, 19
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I'm having no problem with controlling myself at the moment. How sad. It's also sad to think I wrote the above paragraph last year, when life, oddly enough, was normal.
Oct. 17, 20
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If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to dip your oar into sentiment’s stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is not an easy place to live.
And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourself longing to leave that world and dwell in some easier one—and then, when you understand at last that difficulties will dog you wherever you may live, this is when poetry and art are born.
Control yourself, you just found another possible 5-star book, which connects so perfectly with the experience you just had with The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry that the result is this year's most harmonic sequence. Don't share every line you're highlighting; it's bad form.
April 6, 19
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I'm having no problem with controlling myself at the moment. How sad. It's also sad to think I wrote the above paragraph last year, when life, oddly enough, was normal.
Oct. 17, 20
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Reading Progress
April 14, 2014
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April 2, 2019
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8.0%
"If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to dip your oar into sentiment’s stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is not an easy place to live.
And this is the first paragraph... Delighted already."
And this is the first paragraph... Delighted already."
April 6, 2019
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9.0%
"When I had lived in this world for twenty years, I understood that it was a world worth living in. At twenty-five I realized that light and dark are sides of the same coin; that wherever the sun shines, shadows too must fall. Now, at thirty, here is what I think: where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one’s pleasures, the greater the pain. If you try to sever the two, life falls apart."
April 11, 2019
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25.0%
"It’s precisely the same if you choose to take heartbreak as the subject for art. You must forget the pain of your own broken heart and simply visualize in objective terms the tender moments, the moments of empathy or unhappiness, even the moments most redolent with the pain of heartbreak. These will then become the stuff of literature and art."
April 20, 2019
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35.0%
"A thin karmic thread winds between us, linking us through something the poem holds that is true to this moment. But a karmic bond that consists of such a very tenuous thread is scarcely, after all, a burdensome matter. Nor is it any ordinary thread—it is like some rainbow arching in the sky, a mist that trails over the plain... What if this thread were to swell before my eyes into the sturdy thickness of a rope?"
May 5, 2019
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46.0%
"What we call pleasure in fact contains all suffering, since it arises from attachment."
May 12, 2019
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50.0%
"All that exists is a feeling. How might I express this feeling in terms of a picture? Or rather, what physical form might I borrow to embody it in a way that would make sense to others?"
May 22, 2019
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70.0%
"That is the wonderful thing about the natural world; while on the one hand it has neither pity nor remorse, on the other, it is neither fickle nor arbitrary in its dealings with people"
May 22, 2019
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70.0%
"Rather than associate with the vulgar and thus induce in yourself the kind of misanthropic fury felt by Timon of Athens, far better to follow the way of the sages of old� in peaceful coexistence with Nature."
September 9, 2019
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Started Reading
October 16, 2020
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85.0%
"I’m a painter and, as such, a man whose professionally cultivated sensibility would automatically put me above my more uncouth neighbors, if I were to descend to dwelling in the common world of human emotions... my superior position allows me to instruct others.
Poetic musings have turned into a bit which could be part of a Netflix stand-up comedy special. In my mind, I'm reading this as John Mulaney would."
Poetic musings have turned into a bit which could be part of a Netflix stand-up comedy special. In my mind, I'm reading this as John Mulaney would."
December 7, 2020
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94.0%
"Having expended all its means to develop the individual, civilization then proceeds to crush it by all possible means."
December 7, 2020
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Finished Reading
