epershand | Ave atque vale, Facebook

After a lot of thought, I've made my peace with Facebook; the same peace I made with Livejournal before the Dreamwidth crossposter encouraged me to revive my LJ account. The decision is, in short, that I will henceforth treat FB in read-only mode. I've cleared out all the information from my profile but am keeping the account active so that I can find information on other people.

The thing I'm saddest to have removed from the FB account turns out to be my list of quotations, carefully pruned and curated over the 6 or 7 (?!?) years I've had the Facebook account. So, for posterity's sake...

"Scholarship doesn't need to wriggle out of it with a joke. It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shed some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. "
- Housman, "The Invention of Love" (by Tom Stoppard)

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool. " - Almost Famous

"hoc opus, hic labor est, primo sine munere iungi; ne dederit gratis quae dedit, usque dabit." - P. Ovidius Naso

"I'm thinking that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the stories I'd love to be able to tell." - qwantz.com