I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Página 143de Henry David Thoreau - 1893Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 páginas
...remember one of the most celebrated moments in the book, when Thoreau tells us of his determination "to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world.")11 Now he 176 Thoreau's journal page, October 16, 1856. © The Pierpont Morgan Library, New... | |
| 118 páginas
...facts of life ... I did not wish to live what was not life; nor did I wish to practice resignation. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then... | |
| William Bryant - 2004 - 175 páginas
...confront only the essential fact of life and not, when I came to die, discover that I had never lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live Spartan-like, to put to rout all that was not life, to shave close and to drive life into a corner,... | |
| Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 páginas
...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (90-91) The passage... | |
| Matthew Kelly - 2004 - 330 páginas
...Henry David Thoreau echo in my mind: "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to put to rout all that was not life . . . and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... | |
| Glenn Solomon - 2004 - 202 páginas
...essential facts of life, and see if [he] could learn what it had to teach, * * *." He said that he wanted to "... live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, * * *." Working for myself as a sole practitioner was sort of my Walden. The truth is that I spent... | |
| Terry Robson - 2004 - 200 páginas
...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. Henry David Thoreau Walden May you live deeply and passionately. NOTES PART 1 A SHIFTING PARADIGM 1... | |
| Harold Kaplan - 336 páginas
...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.20 As a topic for the imagination, death is vivid as the frustration of that will to live. Extinction... | |
| Andrew Ballantyne - 2005 - 324 páginas
...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and... | |
| Steven Watts - 2005 - 244 páginas
...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms,... | |
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