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In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#gallows-humour #hanged #insult #intellectual #life

Fight the Fight and Never Accept Defeat... Life is like a three minute round. Step into that ring, feel the adrenaline,throw your punches and take them, respect your opposition; and win or lose, remember you went in fighting and came out a winner! ↗


— Carol Gambill


#inspirational

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solenm main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. ↗


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#inspirational

Where do thoughts come from, Father?” King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them. ↗


— Darryl Steven Markowitz


#introspective #inspirational

I think Hemingway's titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary. ↗


— Sylvia Beech


#life

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives. ↗


— Jonathan Waterman


#life #mountaineering #life

The decent person is hard to be found as if your are a decent person it will be very hard to stay decent ↗


— Hesham Alaa


#life #logic-reason #mind #people #reality

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet. ↗


— David Samuels


#humming #insects #nature #radio #life

Oh my God!" Lindsay cried. "I swear I shall practice celibacy every day for the rest of my life! I swear it, Anais. ↗


— Charlotte Featherstone


#life

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74) ↗


— Donald Rothberg


#life






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