"What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless."

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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

— Henry Louis Gates