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Hubbard, Frank McKinney. "Abe Martin Says." The Fairmount News, c. 1913.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 9.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 9.

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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

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De Gondi, Jean-Francois Paul. Memoires. 1717, bk. 2.

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Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 779.

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Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 779.

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Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929, introduction.

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London, Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. Macmillan, 1916.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung [The World as Will and Imagination]. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation, edited by Christopher Janaway, translated by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

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Karr, Alphonse. Les Guepes. Au Bureau du Figaro, c. 1849.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

W.H. Davies

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Davies, W. H. "Leisure." Songs of Joy and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1911.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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Tom. Quoted in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions On Writing and Life, written by Anne Lamott. Pantheon Books. 1994.

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Rice, Grantland. "Alumnus Football." Nashville Tennessean, c. 1908.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. London: John Williams, 1648.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Crofts. Dover Publications, 1995.

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Berryman, John. "A Point of Age." Poems. New Directions, 1942.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Thomas Mann

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

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Novalis. Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Berlin, 1802, pt. 2.

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Novalis. Henry von Ofterdingen. Dover Publications, 2015, pt. 2.

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Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.