

“Let my country die for me.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park

“What distinguishes analytical philosophy from other contemporary philosophy (though not from much philosophy of other times) is a certain way of going on, which involves argument, distinctions, and, so far as it remembers to try to achieve it and succeeds, moderately plain speech. As an alternative to plain speech, it distinguishes sharply between obscurity and technicality. It always rejects the first, but the second it sometimes finds a necessity. This feature peculiarly enrages some of its enemies. Wanting philosophy to be at once profound and accessible, they resent technicality but are comforted by obscurity.”
― Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
― Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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