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The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)


C.G. Jung


#transformation #life

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.


Northrop Frye


#literature #metaphor #writing #education

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.


Gustave Flaubert


#metaphor #life

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.


Sarah Hall


#life

Domination and critique have always formed an apparatus covertly against a common hostis: the conspirator, who works under cover, who used everything THEY give him and everything THEY attribute to him as a mask. The conspirator is everywhere hated, although THEY will never hate him as much as he enjoys playing his game. No doubt a certain amount of what one usually calls “perversion” accounts for the pleasure, since what he enjoys, among other things, is his opacity. But that isn’t the reason THEY continue to push the conspirator to make himself a critic, to subjectivate himself as critic, nor the reason for the hate THEY so commonly express. The reason is quite simply the danger he represents. The danger, for Empire, is war machines: that one person, that people transform themselves into war machines, ORGANICALLY JOIN THEIR TASTE FOR LIFE AND THEIR TASTE FOR DESTRUCTION.


Tiqqun


#criticism #destruction #domination #metaphysics #subjectivity

putriku menaiki lidah petir. membangunkan setiap raksasa malas. mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup. menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran.


Dorothea Rosa Herliany


#life #metaphor #play #life

Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.


Hideo Azuma


#life

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.


Gustav Fechner


#philosophy #psychology-spirituality #life

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.


Mother Teresa


#love #metaphor #love

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.


Edna St. Vincent Millay


#metaphor #poetry #wisdom #love






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