What did Wendell Berry mean by: Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. - Wendell Berry Writer · USA Copy
+ To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wendell Berry, Language, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Wendell Berry, Hiking, Journey, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wendell Berry, Sacred, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wendell Berry, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Wendell Berry, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy. Feraz Zeid, June 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Wendell Berry, Economy, Fight, Strength, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wendell Berry, Speech, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
+ You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Wendell Berry, Imagine, 0 - Wendell Berry Writer · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England