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| The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Traveling” (1859-60), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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| The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. ~ |
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| [T]he right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. |
| ~ (James Madison) Virginia Resolutions, 1798 ~ |
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| In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. IV, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| I can perform absurd work, choose the creative attitude rather than another. But an absurd attitude, if it is to remain so, must remain aware of its gratuitousness. So it is with the work of art. If the commandments of the absurd are not respected, if the work does not illustrate divorce and revolt, if it sacrifices to illusions and arouses hope, it ceases to be gratuitous. I can no longer detach myself from it. My life may find a meaning in it, but that is trifling. It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Absurd Creation, Philosophy and Fiction, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. |
| ~ John Howard Payne (1791 - 1852) ~ |
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| There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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