January 2012
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“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined,...”
– Martin Heidegger
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“Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there’s no stopping it.”
– Bulgakov
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“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her...”
– Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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Personal Sunday.
Essay-length conversations about everything.
Liberation brought by realization that some friends are just people you know.
Inevitability of death makes you weed out things that don’t matter.
Breathing, but I guess it is possible to live without air.
Finding ‘berries of the forest’ instant kissel packets in your luggage bag’s pocket.
Uncluttering piles of clutter.
New...
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“The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’...”
– Mary Daly
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wrappedinsculptureofsound replied to your photo: can’t stop won’t stop
this is more like it
I lost two followers because of it. A lone tear dropped on my keyboard.
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“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the...”
– Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
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“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else...”
– Bob Dylan
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The Black Angels - Young Men Dead
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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“Once upon a time, in Bohemia, there was a flourishing industry which seems to...”
– Sartre
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“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we’re ridiculous,...”
– The Idiot
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“For isn’t the life of man a momentary booziness of the soul? And an eclipse of...”
– Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line
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“But man is a creature both frivolous and myopic and, perhaps like a chess...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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Personal Sunday.
My grandad taught me to write, read and count before I went to school. He told me stories no history book could explain better. Chain smoked filterless cigarettes from the age of ten, we used to joke that tar was the only thing holding his lungs together like glue. Was the most magnificent misanthrope imaginable, but loved us more than that. Sure, there were fights, because we are all only humans...
nebulosa replied to your photo: Coping strategy: copying Sulamith Wülfing’s…
I love it!
I owe you big time for posting one of them a while ago!
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“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either....”
– Margarita (about herself)
[funny how we share the name]
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“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still...”
– Martin Heidegger
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