"History is philosophy teaching by example. If we pride ourselves on learning from experience, then the experience of humankind is a required source of instruction. For though what happens in this world of ours rarely imitates its antecedents exactly, the present's resemblances to the past tend to be uncanny. We know that the price of not knowing ( Read more... )

It's true, it's strange not living on earth
anymore, not using customs you hardly learned,
not giving the meaning of a human future
to roses and other things that promise so much;
no longer being that you used to be
in hands that were always anxious,
throwing out even your own name like a broken toy.
It's strange not to wish your wishes anymore. Strange
to ( Read more... )

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

Probably not a new love. But yes, a new country.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/014927.html
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"When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation."

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real ( Read more... )

"If man was able to drain all repetition from his life so that each moment was 
a unique creation, if each place, each event, each thought were new and filled 
with the risk of uncertainty, chased by a small demitasse of anxiety, 
with the awesomeness of novelty and surprise, 
that would justify a real life, 
not like these mass-marketed, manufactured ( Read more... )

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

This quote hits too close too home, I guess.  I went shopping with my family this Saturday.  After helping my little sister buy clothes, I passed by the office just to get a couple of things so I could work at home.  Even ( Read more... )

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come up to meet ya
tell ya i'm sorry
you don't know how lovely you are
i had to find you
tell you i need you
tell you i set you apart

tell me your secrets
and ask me your questions
oh let's go back to the start
running in circles
coming up tails
heads on a silence apart

nobody said it was easy
it's such a shame for us to part
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