Guys, I am a little sick and swamped with work...so please bear with me, I will catch up with everyone in the next few days. Much lust.
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But for those obstinate questioningsOf sense and outward things,Falling from us, vanishings;Blank misgivings of a creatureMoving about in worlds not realized,High instincts before which our mortal …
Instead of my usual Quote of the Day, I decided to post one of my all time favorite poems. It’s one I think every woman should have a copy of, to remind themselves just what they are. I carry one in my wallet. hehe
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti, Die Provinz der Menschen
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri, Speech in Pari…
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They are playing a game.They are playing at not playing a game.If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
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No, my soul is not asleep.It is awake, wide awake.It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,its eyes wide openfar-off things, and listensat the shores of the great silence.
Antonio Machado
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There is in every heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Ir…
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Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the wo…
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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
Bobby Fischer, chess champion, 1972
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I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it…
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My mind to me a kingdom is;Such present joys therein I findThat it excels all other blissThe earth affords or grows by kind.
Sir Edward Dyer, Rawlinson Poetry MS 85
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann, Death in Ve…
Quote of the Day:And when Tweedle Beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle in a bottle, and the bottle's on a poodle, and the poodle's eating noodles, it's a Tweedle Beetle Noodle Poodle Puddle Bottle Paddle Battle.…
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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I sh…
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.
H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
Mechanical
Neither here nor there
through that frontier of doubt
crossed only by glimmers and mirages
I travel toward myself.
Over the spiral path
insurgence toward
resurgence
climbing to convergence,
explodi…
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The thoughts that come unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
John Locke
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the in…
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word.The coward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde, The …
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We cannot kindle when we willThe fire that in the heart resides,The spirit bloweth and is still,In mystery our soul abides.
Matthew Arnold, "Morality"
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A majority can never replace the individual… Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, a heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Take…
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Goethe, Elective Affinities