#arc

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. ↗

— Igino Ugo Tarchetti

#courage

Arcadia,” Lon’s voice said from my phone. “Who is this?” I teased. “You can’t take my son on a date.” “I didn’t ask him. He asked me.” “He stole my cell and called without permission.” “Sounds like a personal problem to me.” A low growling noise came out of the phone. ↗

— Jenn Bennett

#lon #dating

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mystery #nature #reasearch #universe #age

At its most basic level semantic search applies meaning to the connections between the different data nodes of the Web in ways that allow a clearer understanding of them than we have ever had to date. ↗

— David Amerland

#google-semantic-search #semantic-search #semantic-web #dating

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating. ↗

— Darrell Gurney

#job-search #dating

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death. ↗

— Charles Atkins

#humor #sarcastic #death

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#freedom #incarceron #death

Accepting what people are, what they can't change and loving them with every part of yourself anyway. That's what love is about." He glared at Elaine. "You take that away from him, you make him believe that kind of love doesn't exist…It would be better for you to shoot him rather than destroy him inch by inch, year after year. If you do that, you're not saving his soul, you're killing it. If you'd look into his eyes for once, you'll see it. How we love is our soul. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#thomas #change

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#dr-urbino #gabriel-garcia-marquez #love-in-the-time-of-cholera #death

His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes. ↗

— Thomas Mullen

#death