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"Don't be afraid of losing someone. Be afraid of losing yourself when you're trying not to lose someone else. "
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“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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Friends and liars don't wait for me
'Cause I'll get on all by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you, I feel, yeah
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightning
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
The night
"I Am The Highway" by Audioslave
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It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
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"I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death"
— The Police, Truth Hits Everyone
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Regret comes in four tones that operate in unison to shape our lives.
First, we regret the life that we lived, the decisions we made, the words we said in anger, and enduring the shame wrought from experiencing painful failures in work and love.
Secondly, we regret the life we did not live, the opportunities missed, the adventures postponed indefinitely, and the failure to become someone else other than whom we now are. American author Shannon L. Alder said, ‘One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.’
Third, we regret that parts of our life are over; we hang onto nostalgic feelings for the past. When we were young and happy, everything was new, and we had not yet encountered hardship. As we age and encounter painful setbacks, we experience disillusionment and can no longer envision a joyous future.
Fourth, we experience bitterness because the world did not prove to be what we hoped or expected it would be.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
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You think when you reach a certain age things will start making sense, and you find out that you are just as lost as you were before. I suppose that's what damnation is.
— Knight of Cups
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Perhaps beauty can be measured by the distance it has travelled to come into being.
That bad people make good art is a cause for hope. To be human is to transgress, of that we can be sure, yet we all have the opportunity for redemption, to rise above the more lamentable parts of our nature, to do good in spite of ourselves, to make beauty from the unbeautiful, and to have the courage to present our better selves to the world.
Hope ... resides in a gesture of kindness from one broken individual to another or, indeed, we can find it in a work of art that comes from the hand of a wrongdoer. These expressions of transcendence, of betterment, remind us that there is good in most things, rarely only evil. Once we awaken to this fact, we begin to see goodness everywhere, and this can go some way in setting right the current narrative that humans are shit and the world is fucked.
Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files #149
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All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.
Elizabeth Bishop
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I am distressed, almost discouraged, and fatigued to the point of feeling slightly ill. What I am doing is no good, and in spite of your confidence, I am very much afraid that my efforts will all lead to nothing.
Claude Monet
In a letter to Gustave Geffroy, 1889
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The Smoking Nun
“There is Christ, or there is death.”
This was an odd thing for Andrew to say, given the man’s generally jovial character, and was sufficiently startling to catch Will’s attention. The two men, both students at Mercy College, were in the reading room of the library, studying for various final exams. It was mid-December, with a healthy seven inches of snow standing on the ground and a cold wind constantly hollering against the windows. The reading room resembled a medieval hall, with a ceiling standing a solid story-and-a-half high, hoisted over large stained-glass windows. An (electric) fireplace cast a deceptively-warm glow from one corner, augmenting the slightly dim lighting hanging from the ceiling.
Under different circumstances, Will would have appreciated the scene, but at that moment he was too startled by Andrew’s comment to notice. “What do you mean?” he compelled himself to say after a few awkward moments, unsure as to how to handle the situation.
“There is Christ, or there is death,” Andrew repeated, “there is God or there is the void, nothing else in life is of any consequence.”
https://terrorhousemag.com/smoking-nun/
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Do you need a prod?
Do you need a little darkness to get you going?
Let me be as urgent as a knife, then...
The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, Mary Oliver
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To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy. Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
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And in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n
(Satan peering into the abyss)
— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV
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A big problem since Watergate is that elites don’t face accountability. It creates a culture of impunity that encourages the shamelessness of someone like Trump.
Martin Flaherty, a founding director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University
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Rejection does not mean you aren't good enough. It just means the other person failed to realize what you have to offer.
Mark Amend
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"On certain days, driving into Santa Monica was like having hallucinations without going to all the trouble of acquiring and then taking a particular drug, although some days, any drug was preferable to driving into Santa Monica."
— Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
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