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" The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved... "
Essays, First Series - Page 292
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
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Emerson's Nonlinear Nature

Christopher J. Windolph - 2007 - 200 pages
...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle." The only caveat is that we must be prepared to draw such circles without end. To Emerson's mind, the...
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Impersonality: Seven Essays

Sharon Cameron - 2009 - 281 pages
...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle—The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment" (Ci 414). Typically, however, while the...
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Sixty Days and Counting

Kim Stanley Robinson - 2007 - 562 pages
...seek with insatiahle desire is to forget ourselves, to he surprised out of our propriety, to lose our memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. The way of life is wonderful; it is by ahandonment, A man never tises so high as when he knows not...
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Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence

Michael Collier - 2007 - 172 pages
...thing we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why." Without Borges, Emerson's intonation would remain transcendental, mystical, and pantheistic as if it...
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