“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

— H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) Via Philosophy Quotes

I just spent half an hour reading some notes I made long ago, most likely in my last two year in college, It must have been my first time through many books that I have revisited and treasure. One note that surprised me is from Bernard Malamud's The Fixer.

Freedom exists in the cracks of the state. Keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Now that feels like a warning from the past.

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In Russian novels characters in their fifties are routinely described as being “in the prime of life.” Clinging to this.  

Surprised to find a image of Claude Monet in his studio.