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Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. ↗


— Metallica


#life-lessons #metallica #momnesia #music #life

A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle. "It's a place for burying dead folk," I say. Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?" "Don't people die in space?" I ask. "Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary? ↗


— Patrick Ness


#cemetary #cremation #dead #death #dying

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bigness is fatal to amenity, to convenience, to conversation, to good manners – all this and much more you may expatiate upon. You may call it dreary, heavy, stupid, dull, inhuman, vulgar at heart and tiresome in form. [...] But these are occasional moods; and for one who takes it as I take it, London is on the whole the most possible form of life. [...] It is the biggest aggregation of human life – the most complete compendium of the world. ↗


— Henry James


#city-life #life #london #metropolis #life

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ↗


— Aberjhani


#metaphysics #passion #sexuality #spirituality #life

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ↗


— Robert McKee


#story #storytelling #time #life

Eagerly wanted to prove something is one sign of lack of self-dependence. ↗


— Toba Beta


#self-dependence #wanted-to-prove-something #life

The Scientific Method is a wonderful tool as long as you don't care which way the outcome turns; however, this process fails the second one's perception interferes with the interpretation of data. This is why I don’t take anything in life as an absolute…even if someone can “prove” it “scientifically. ↗


— Cristina Marrero


#humor #proof #science-fiction #scientific-method #life

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. ↗


— Yann Martel


#life-of-pi #metaphor #pain #suffering #time

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all. ↗


— Jeanette Winterson


#love

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. ↗


— David Levithan


#chord #love #lyric #metaphor #moment






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