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[Rene @rene_december]

A big difference between Mediterranean and Nordic cultures is how they show up for a first meeting. Meds rarely come alone, and Nords almost always do. Remember when Napoleon went to meet Goethe, he brought his whole posse with him, while Goethe was alone at his home.

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@xenocosmography Wishful picture-hanging typical of museum decline

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Pretentious nature worship and public self-explanation — a true Nietzschean

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'In the evening during a work-break, when I sit with the peasants by the fire or at the table in the 'Lord's Corner,' we mostly say nothing at all. We smoke our pipes in silence.'

Martin Heidegger, 'Why do I Stay in the Provinces' (1934)

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Full video:

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I think about this guy every single day.

[A cloud, hollow @DullClayCutter]

Finished my third and so far final revision of my Hungarian translation of Li Zhi's letter to Zeng Zhongye. I wrote the whole thing out by hand with a brush. Why? The reason is very simple: I enjoy it. Does it train the brain and the hand? Yes, but would do it even if it didn't.

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@DullClayCutter @CBankingEditor The original video. You may already know it.
https://t.co/0OqFotwOLE

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@waldmenschen I’ve never seen one of these. Incredible.

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I am Still so inspired by this. One of those situations when your wares are getting mogged but you can’t even be mad about it. Respect where it’s due.

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“Chinese ceramics, by far the most advanced in the world…”
This phrase is hugely inspiring to me.

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@the_book_land He died in that room, attended by his friend and fellow great poet, Vasily Zhukovsky.

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Pushkin’s study

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@realKalos Preposterous

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How many people are out there reading the complete works of Marx and Engels on their phone screen? Probably just me and 20 million other Chinese guys.

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Instead of scrolling you can just pick a random author and download his complete shit on kindle for like $0.42 then read nineteen thousand pages of it on your phone. Completely legal to do that btw.

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@Evugene2 Spoken like a doctor.

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One key to historical greatness is the courage to simply reject the standards of your age in favor of a chosen ideal. Of course, the other two keys are the talent and industriousness to do something worthwhile. And people very rarely have all three.

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The common English style of today is a mania for modifiers. No one can make a simple point without overusing adjectives and adverbs. And the new favorites — based, nonchalant, unironically, etc. — grow old and sterile very quickly.

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@AntigoneJournal I love Knight’s “Roman Vergil”.

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Hanging portraits of your heroes in your office — very Lindy. No one really does it anymore.

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@graveair Phlegmatics in power are even rarer.

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At the mall on a Saturday afternoon