"Do that, dear Lucilius: assert your own freedom."
The first line from Seneca to Lucilius is something wonderful.
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Started Seth Long’s “The Last Mixtape” last night & it’s off to a good start.@tsutrav I do, but I got burnt out of my field notes/cluttering up my journal. So I'm building a digital one with the intent of making a public book that people can find new reads/watches. It's kind of my favorite way I can anti-doomscroll with.
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Started Seth Long’s “The Last Mixtape” last night & it’s off to a good start.@tsutrav Those are some good quotes. Do you keep a common place book?
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"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.""The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016)
A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that will not leave you alone.
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"He knew that kindliness and generosity were as universal as deception and cut-throat competition."@cptbutton it's a heinlien book, so probably him. I'm just scraping the attribution from Hardcover.
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"He knew that kindliness and generosity were as universal as deception and cut-throat competition.""He knew that kindliness and generosity were as universal as deception and cut-throat competition." - Robert A. Heinlein, Robert James, Spider Robinson, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs (2003)
A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that won't leave you alone.
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I'll get bored of posting pictures of #Orks some day, but not today.I'll get bored of posting pictures of #Orks some day, but not today.
The leader of the #WreckaKrew #killteam a Wrecka Boss Nob
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Easing back into good looking photos with this #WreckaKrew member.Easing back into good looking photos with this #WreckaKrew member. Think he's a Rokkit Boy or something similar.
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The strangest thing about keeping a commonplace book: You stop reading for plot.The strangest thing about keeping a commonplace book: You stop reading for plot. You start reading for the line.
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I never know what to read when I get ready to commute...I never know what to read when I get ready to commute...
Today, I'm listening to a fun one.
It's about something I can't quite remember.
Where am I going?
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This is my artistic streak this week.This is my artistic streak this week. Need to forget the bad and bring in the good methods of wet blending.
Check out https://locuscommunis.com if you want to start a #commonplacebook !
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Well hello, first actual real life user of https://locuscommunis.com from Paris and Sao Paolo.Well hello, first actual real life user of https://locuscommunis.com from Paris and Sao Paolo. Super cool to see you guys.