Month: July 2020

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:18 am

“Every passion makes us commit faults, but love leads us into the most ridiculous blunders.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:00 am

“The worst form of ridicule to which old people, once charming, are susceptible, is to forget that they are no longer attractive.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:15 am

“Each age of life is new to us, and we find ourselves hampered by inexperience regardless of our years.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:35 am

“Praising the mighty for the virtues they do not possess is one method of insulting them with impunity.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:26 am

“Why is it that our memory recalls even the minutest details of our experiences, but cannot recall how many times we have told the same story to the same person?” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:26 am

“Some well-disguised falsehoods so cleverly simulate truth that it were ill-advised not to be deceived by them.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:06 am

“Laziness with all its indolence is often the most absolute sovereign; it encroaches upon all the plans and acts of our lives, and, little by little, saps and destroys our passions and our virtues.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 8:16 am

“We flatter ourselves that we quit our vices; in reality our vices quit us.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:27 am

“Vices are as often component parts of virtues as poisons are of healing potions; shrewdness combines and blends them to relieve the ills of life.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 8:07 am

“The Philosophers’ scorn of wealth was but their secret ambition to exalt their merit above fortune by deriding those blessings which Fate denied them. It was a ruse to shield them from the sordidness of poverty, and a subterfuge to attain that distinction which they could not achieve by wealth.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:20 am

“When you are no good at what you do, it does you no good to triumph at whatever you might come home to, either.” – Gary Lutz, “I Was in Kilter with Him a Little”

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:19 am

“Had we no faults, we should not take such pleasure in discovering them in others.” – François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (trans. John Heard)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:24 am

“Lord knows what he does that I don’t know and Im to be slooching around down in the kitchen to get his lordship his breakfast while hes rolled up like a mummy will I indeed did you ever see me running id just like to see myself at it show them attention and they treat you like dirt I don’t care what anybody says itd be much better for the world to be governed by the women in it you wouldnt see women going and killing one another and slaughtering when do you ever see women rolling around drunk like they do or gambling every penny they have and losing it on horses yes because a woman whatever she does she knows where to stop sure they wouldnt be in the world at all only for us they don’t know what it is to be a woman and a mother how could they where would they all of them be if they hadnt had a mother to look after them” – James Joyce, Ulysses

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:58 am

“Random processes have no memory, no guarantee. You can watch those around you eliminated and you yourself go untouched. It’s a certain kind of torture.” – Benjamin Kessler, “One in Eight”

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:07 am

“Plain and loved, loved for ever, they say. Ugly: no woman thinks she is. Love, lie and be handsome for tomorrow we die.” – James Joyce, Ulysses

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:33 am

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia, hangman god, is doubtless all in all in all of us, ostler and butcher, and would be bawd and cuckold too but that in the economy of heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, glorified man, and androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself.” – James Joyce, Ulysses

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:07 am

“Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man. It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten. On that mystery and not on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the world, macro- and microcosm, upon the void. Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood. Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life. Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?” – James Joyce, Ulysses