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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#ask #birds #cherries #children #how

Just look at this life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, impossible poverty all around us, overcrowding, degeneracy, drunkenness, hypocrisy, lies...Yet in all the houses and streets it's quiet, peaceful; of the fifty thousand people who live in town there is not one who would cry out or become loudly indignant. We see those who go to the market to buy food, eat during the day, sleep during the night, who talk their nonsense, get married, grow old, complacently drag their dead to the cemetery; but we don't see or hear those who suffer, and the horrors of life go on somewhere behind the scenes. Everything is quiet, peaceful, and only mute statistics protest: so many gone mad, so many buckets drunk, so many children dead of malnutrition... And this order is obviously necessary; obviously the happy man feels good only because the unhappy bear their burden silently, and without that silence happiness would be impossible. It's a general hypnosis. At the door of every happy, contented man somebody should stand with a little hammer, constantly tapping, to remind him that unhappy people exist, that however happy he may be, sooner or later life will show him its claws, some calamity will befall him--illness, poverty, loss--and nobody will hear or see, just as he doesn't hear or see others now. But there is nobody with a little hammer, the happy man lives on, and the petty cares of life stir him only slightly, as wind stirs an aspen--and everything is fine.


Anton Chekhov


#food

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.


Golda Meir


#cotton #grown #israel #kind #new

I ate mythology & dreamt' - Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)


Yusef Komunyakaa


#dream #myth #mythology #dreams

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.


Bradley Chicho


#cloth #dropped #earth #friends #grateful






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