Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Lesser Wendy

Author:Lesser, Wendy [Lesser, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Is it not simpler to grasp that man lives not for the fulfilment of his destiny, not for the incarnation of an idea, not for progress, but solely because he was born; and he was born for (however bad a word that is) … for the present, which does not at all prevent his either receiving a heritage from the past or leaving something in his will. To idealists this seems humiliating and coarse: they will take absolutely no account of the fact that the great significance of us men […] consists in just this: that while we are alive, until the knot held together by us has been resolved into its elements, we are for all that ourselves, and not dolls destined to suffer progress.

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