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“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
“I felt at home, too much so – perhaps that is what stopped me from reading on. Case closed there and then.”
This Side of the Pond | Beckett’s Reading List
Samuel Beckett on reading Franz Kafka’s The Castle.
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (via azspot)
Superfluidity is anything but a child, then, wandering Athens as he is right now, good man.
Here is the quotation in the original Latin:
“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”
— From ‘Orator Ad M. Brutum’, 46 BCE
(via superfluidity)
“I don’t speak of vengeance or forgiveness; forgetting is the only vengeance and the only forgiveness.”
Jorge Luis Borges, “Fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo”, Elogio de la sombra, my transl.
In the original:
Yo no hablo de venganzas ni de perdones; el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.
“…sexually [Dr. Aziz] was a snob. This had puzzled and worried Fielding. Sensuality, as along as it is straightforward, did not repel him, but this derived sensuality—the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful and among eye-flies if she isn’t—was alien to his own emotions, and he felt a barrier between himself and Aziz whenever it arose. It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that saints retreat into the Himalayas.”
