Shadow Lines and the truth about relationships:

....in the face of that unthinkable adult truth: that need is not transitive, 
that one may need without oneself being needed.

~ Amitav Ghosh

Danke schoen
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"Imprisoned by four walls

(to the North, the crystal of non-knowledge a landscape to be invented
to the South, reflective memory
to the East, the mirror
to the West, stone and the song of silence)
I wrote messages, but received no reply."

~  Octavio Paz

...to gladden the hearts of all P.G. Wodehouse lovers.

This will make your blues vanish and may even make
you so happy as to sing in your bath. You will take to it like
a cat to catnip, like Gussie Fink-Nottle to newts or like
Lord Emsworth to the Empress of Blandings.

Go ahead, indulge!!  : )

For the uninitiated, here is a sample:

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I arrived at work this morning to
find a few lines in Lupin's uneven hand.
He had written or rather quoted
from John Donne:

"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main...

... Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."

How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live

- Henry David Thoreau

Mea culpa.

And a bit of
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Wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
P.S. I am on vacation. Will be back on LJ in the New Year.

'Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love brings with it anxiety, heart ache, insecurity and eventually, loss.

Every time you love, you make yourself vulnerable to getting hurt
 and losing your peace of mind.

But love is worth risking all this and more.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson as ( Read more... )

"Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious."

The Bald Prima Donna by Eugene Ionesco.

I saw a cartoon that showed a man reading a huge poster.

It said:

BIG BROTHER IS
NO LONGER
INTERESTED IN
WATCHING YOU