5. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." GK CHESTERTON
That quote is absolute win. I read it for the first time when I was in highschool, and I've been using it ever since. It just makes so much sense. I think I like the phrasing better in French, though. I can't really explain it, but it translates roughly as "The way to love something is to tell yourself that you could lose it." Yeah I know, it's pretty much the same thing, but it sounds different to me in French. *shrugs*
And now I'm off to bed. Just finished working on Faux for... 8 hours straight? Damn. No wonder my eyes hurt XD But at least I got a lot done so I think you might be able to beta it soon :)
I only just realised what a misanthrope these quotations make me sound. Heh. Ah well. It was just something fun to do over coffee this morning, really XD
I love that Evelyn Waugh quote. It stood out to me when I first read BRIDESHEAD and it represented how I felt about leaving home for university, just like it did for Charles.
Unfortunately, life isn't a fairy tale, but seeking that low door and holding fast to the belief in that garden, is never a bad thing.
Hmm. I can only think of a couple succinct quotes, though I can think of quite a few books/essays/plays/stories -- but in those cases, it's rare that there's a single quote.
Really, it boils down to one, and I feel somewhat silly over it, as it's a song lyric, and not even a terribly erudite one. And just saying it doesn't quite reflect what it means to try to live it. From the song Rush, by Big Audio Dynamite II: If I had my time again / I would do it all the same / And not change a single thing / Even when I was to blame. I've always taken it to mean I should always try to live my life in such a way that I can honestly say I have no regrets. It's been mostly a good thing; I have very few regrets. But I've always thought it was a fairly ruthless philosophy, along with carpe diem and its successors.
Ok, I'll add my favorite variation on the carpe diem theme: since the thing perhaps is / to eat flowers and not to be afraid -- e.e. cummings. The whole poem is lovely -- it's "voices to voices, lip to lip
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That quote is absolute win. I read it for the first time when I was in highschool, and I've been using it ever since. It just makes so much sense. I think I like the phrasing better in French, though. I can't really explain it, but it translates roughly as "The way to love something is to tell yourself that you could lose it." Yeah I know, it's pretty much the same thing, but it sounds different to me in French. *shrugs*
And now I'm off to bed. Just finished working on Faux for... 8 hours straight? Damn. No wonder my eyes hurt XD But at least I got a lot done so I think you might be able to beta it soon :)
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Good for you re. Faux. I wish I didn't have to come into work and I could write all day and night at my whim. Sigh.
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Dammit, stop coming up with memes that are interesting enough for me to want to steal! *weep* Only, don't really, because they're great fun.
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I am going to try to play this now, but I don't think I've lived long enough to get ten. Seven if I'm *lucky*.
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I love that Evelyn Waugh quote. It stood out to me when I first read BRIDESHEAD and it represented how I felt about leaving home for university, just like it did for Charles.
Unfortunately, life isn't a fairy tale, but seeking that low door and holding fast to the belief in that garden, is never a bad thing.
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Really, it boils down to one, and I feel somewhat silly over it, as it's a song lyric, and not even a terribly erudite one. And just saying it doesn't quite reflect what it means to try to live it.
From the song Rush, by Big Audio Dynamite II:
If I had my time again / I would do it all the same / And not change a single thing / Even when I was to blame.
I've always taken it to mean I should always try to live my life in such a way that I can honestly say I have no regrets. It's been mostly a good thing; I have very few regrets. But I've always thought it was a fairly ruthless philosophy, along with carpe diem and its successors.
Ok, I'll add my favorite variation on the carpe diem theme: since the thing perhaps is / to eat flowers and not to be afraid -- e.e. cummings. The whole poem is lovely -- it's "voices to voices, lip to lip ( ... )
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