One-Liner Wednesday: Choose Life
One-Liner Wednesday 4 August 2021
One-Liner Wednesday 4 August 2021
“Philosophers are only men in armour, after all” – Charles Dickens: ‘The Pickwick Papers’ – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 17 March 2021
“They would not be my readers, but the readers of themselves.” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 24 February 2021
“A work of art is the only means of regaining lost time” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 17 February 2021
“It is the passage of time that causes us to forget our antipathies, our contempts, and the very causes which gave birth to them” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #!linerWeds 10 February 2021
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 3 February 2021
“Since I could expect to have no other than frivolous pleasures, what was the use of not accepting them?” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 27 January 2021
“Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make it important” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #!linerWeds 20 January 2021
“Those who create their own world, their own interior life, are little concerned with the importance of events” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 13 January 2021
“We are always ready to despise a goal which we have not succeeded in reaching” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 6 January 2021