"I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought."

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Robert Darnton

#Philosophy Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Literature Quotes

“My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.”
“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.”
“For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.”
“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.”
“The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.”
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment.”
“The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.”
“One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.”

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