Many Windows @manywindowz

I read for the line that finds me back. For the questions that stay after the page turns. Joined May 2026

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Many Windows @manywindowz

2 months ago

@realAtlasPress “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” — Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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2 months ago

You don’t need to win the argument to live. You need to stop making living wait for the argument to end.

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2 months ago

The one honest person at a dying man's bedside is the servant — the only one who won't pretend he isn't dying. The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy, trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky.

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2 months ago

Calvino says the book keeps speaking. Confucius says you keep changing. Seneca says: so stay with the few that repay it. The shelf you return to is the one that's actually yours.

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Seneca turned it into a rule for a whole library: "Linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind." — Letters 2 (Gummere trans.) Read few. Read them to the bone.

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2 months ago

You don't reread a book to remember it. You reread it to find out who you've become since. Three traditions arrived at this from different directions.

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2 months ago

We underline the sentence we already half-knew, and were waiting to be told.

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2 months ago

If the Stoics feel too tidy, read Annie Dillard — Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She sat by one creek for a year and found the whole machinery of being alive in it. Theology by way of muskrats and mantises. Read the chapter on the moth. Then read it again.

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2 months ago

Borges was going blind around the time he was made director of Argentina's national library. He wrote: "I, who had always thought of Paradise in form and image as a library." — Jorge Luis Borges, "Poem of the Gifts" (trans. Alastair Reid)

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2 months ago

The best advice on how to live that I've ever read: "Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." — Mary Oliver, "Sometimes"

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2 months ago

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." — Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 1904 (Winston trans.)

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2 months ago

"Never say of anything, 'I have lost it,' but say, 'I have given it back.'" — Epictetus, Enchiridion 11

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2 months ago

@AlexAndBooks_ Reading gives you material, thinking gives it weight.

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2 months ago

Everyone is waiting to become the person who can finally begin. But there is no such person waiting at the end of the waiting. There is only you, here, unfinished, and the small unbearable act of starting anyway.

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2 months ago

Most people don’t want understanding; they want translation.

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2 months ago

“I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not.” — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Zenith trans.)

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2 months ago

@AlexAndBooks_ Mediocre books gather dust. Great ones change hands.

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2 months ago

Kierkegaard wrote this in his journal in 1843. It has not aged a day: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Søren Kierkegaard