Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu. 1972/1992. “The Doctrine.” In The Life of the Buddha: As it Appears in the Pali Canon, the Oldest Authentic Record.

Frank Bidart, “To the Dead”, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016

[Text ID: “The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

Meghan Dailey on Louise Bourgeois’s Maman

Honestly, one of the things that fuck me up the most about The Brothers Karamazov, is not only that Dostoyevski names Fyodor Karamazov —arguably the most vile character in the novel— after himself; but that he names this character's pure son, mr. little ray of sunshine Alyosha, the same as the son Dostoyevski lost at three years old, a loss that pained him all his life, like????? what did you meant by this sir???? does such goodness only belongs to the realm of death?? of fantasy?? Are we always to taint good works through our polluting influence? what does this mean!!!!

May Sarton, "Of Grief", Selected Poems

We are a forward looking, not backward looking society, not looking to the past for examples of patterns of behaviour and conduct completely irrelevant in the modern society that we found ourselves. ...Man reaching out for the stars. ...It is to show we do not find our solutions by turning over dusty pages of some chronicle of some ancient time telling us about some ancient customs more relevant to his days, but that we have the forward, the inquiring outlook, and are keen to learn, keen to make a success of the future.

Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind The Man

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War