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Working on a new project: https://locuscommunis.com A commonplace book for you, and everyone you want to share it with. #books #Warhammer #mtg #magician Running on fumes, but the good ones. #Brooklyn #NYC

The perception of an angel or god has no meaning for me. - The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
"If you think your circumstances are bad, then does it matter what they are really like?" — Seneca, Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (64)
"A person entering our house should marvel at the inhabitant, not at the dinnerware." — Seneca, Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (64)
"But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer." — Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer (1956)
"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016)
My father found me under an old tree that was sick with Dutch elm disease. He sat down and told me that when a man is born, he is born with a great debt, and that one day the debt must be paid. I said that it was unfair, that others should have to pay before Old Jack, but my father explained that the rain falls on all of us, the wicked and the righteous alike. “Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir” by Norm Macdonald
"The best revenge is not to be like that." — Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond, Meditations (180)
"What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the explanation itself." — Jared Diamond, Doug Ordunio, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)
"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016)
"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet." — Joe Abercrombie, The Devils (2021
"The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori." — Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est (1917)
"A stubborn belief that honor mattered, even when no one was watching." — Game of Thrones (2011)
"“How do you do this?” And her answer was, “It’s like I’m already dead.”" — Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman, The Dude and the Zen Master (2012)
"You could call a brick a soccer ball, but I wouldn’t recommend using it that way" — Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman, Easy Money
Screenshot of a Locus Communis share card showing the quote 'Give them a cathedral' by Simon Sinek from Start With Why, with an open book illustration on a parchment background.
Locus Communis quote card on parchment background. Header reads "LOCUS COMMUNIS" flanked by thin rules. Below it, a small open book showing a commonplace page with handwritten-style excerpts. Under the book, a large serif quote: "But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer." Attribution at bottom left: "— Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer (1956)." Book title "The Door into Summer" in the bottom right corner.