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1 de jan. de 2009 · I like my life and I am a positive person: after a good walk all the dark thoughts go away, and the problems become opportunities, but it is also true that on the train or on the bus I see faces without expression and I know how it can be frustrating doing things as a robot. Living an anodyne life will drive you to madness. And time goes by.
“This Is Water: Some Thoughts Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life” is an essay by David Foster Wallace that was delivered as a commencement speech at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005.
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How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times ...
7 de mai. de 2009 · This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Hardcover – 7 May 2009 by David Foster Wallace (Author) 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,209 ratings
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12 de set. de 2012 · The speech, which includes a remark about suicide by firearms that came to be extensively discussed after Wallace’s own eventual suicide, was published as a slim book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (public library).
5 de ago. de 2018 · Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. The world doesn’t revolve around you. That’s the gist of what David Foster Wallace wants you to never forget. He explains why in his beautiful 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech “ This Is Water.” Who Should Read “This Is Water”? And Why?
