Illustrations from The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by W. Heath Robinson (1900)
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“Definitions can’t be the basis of meaning for all words, or we’d go forever in a circle. Eventually we must get to some words which have meaning directly.”— Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?
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MARLENE DIETRICH as Christine Vole/Helm in “Witness for the Prosecution” (1957)
“Accept it without arrogance, let it go with indifference.”— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.33)
Illustration from New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons, 19th century
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“Man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.”— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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