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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗


— Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ↗


— Havelock Ellis


#land #lies #other #promised #promised land

To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness. ↗


— David Guterson


#happiness #passion #death

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗


— Brian Eno


#because #become #being #community #consciousness

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door. ↗


— Andrew Dost


#another #beatles #bed #best #cry

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ↗


— Fyodor Dostoevsky


#greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #know #source

Jen's Mum Will Write Jen's mum writes advertising copy. She specializes in white goods: washing machines, dryers, fridges, freezers, dishwashers. She hates these appliances hulking in corners, power-hungry and fractious. One day, she will have a wood stove, and she'll write about things that matter- she will write about birth and death, about love and the absence of love, about fathers and children, about mothers and daughters, about lovers and friends. She'll write about the whole goddamn wonderful, awful business of loving and being loved ↗


— Margaret Wild


#love #margaret-wild #poetry #business

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗


— Jean Claude Duvalier


#deep #express #feel #government #i

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. ↗


— John Lawson


#easy #inhabitants #life #live #pleasant

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. ↗


— Martin H. Fischer


#business #called #gamble #game #good






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