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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The collections of quotations from classical authors in the twelfth century were generally called fores philosophorum or flores auctorum, or to use term adopted by modern historians, flower-collections.”
— Ann Moss, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Tagged: Flower Collecting, Quotes, Quote Catalog Is A Mind Garden, History of Quote Collecting, Quote Collections, Quotes about Quotes
“We should imitate bees and we should keep in separate compartments whatever we have collected from our diverse reading, for things conserved separately keep better. Then, diligently applying all the resources of our native talent, we should mingle all the various nectars we have tasted, and turn them into a single sweet substance, in such a way that, even if it is apparent where it originated, it appears quite different from what it was in its original state.”
— Seneca, Seneca, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Tagged: Quote, Quote Collecting, Commonplace Books
“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to begin, at some point, to think about what to do about himself.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Disappear Here
“Lotto’s heart kicked froglike in his chest; sweeping toward him in her brilliant blue skirt, Mathilde. His azure lion rampant. Her long hair plaited down her left breast, she, the nexus of all the good of this world.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Azure, Feeling of love
“I was relaxed in the suburbs. Everything was different: the rhythm of the days, your social status, suspicions about people. It was a refuge for the less competitive; it was the minor leagues. You simply didn’t have to pay as much attention to things.”
— Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: The Suburbs
“I could never be as honest about myself in a piece of nonfiction as I could in any of my novels and so I gave up.”
— Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Fiction Is Non-Fiction, Reality Hunger, Identity Construction, Fiction Writing, Narrative Fallacy, Lies as Truth
“There are so many things Blair doesn’t get about me, so many things she ultimately overlooked, and things that she would never know, and there would be a distance between us because there were too many shadows everywhere. Had she ever made promises to a faithless reflection in the mirror? The fades, the dissolves, the rewritten scenes, all the things you wipe away – I now want to explain these things to her but I know I never will, the most important one being: I never liked anyone.”
— Clay Easton, Imperial Bedrooms (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: How Bret Easton Ellis Ends His Books, Mirrors
“The ways of reflection constantly are changing, according to the station along the way at which the journey begins, according to the distance along the way that it traverses, according to the vision that opens up while underway into what is question worthy.”
— Martin Heidegger, Heidegger and Unconcealment
Tagged: Situatedness, Scientific Perspectivism, Truth as Movement
“I just miss —  I miss being anonymous.”
— Barack Obama, President Obama: 'I Miss Being Anonymous'
Tagged: Disappear Here
“The present is always invisible because it’s environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone but the artist, the man of integral awareness, is alive in an earlier day.”
— Marshall McLuhan, The Playboy Interview
Tagged: Environmental Thinking, What An Artist Does, Progress, Seeing Seeing