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Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. ↗
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. ↗
#existentialism #meaning-of-life #nihilism #the-absurd #life
Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from the mass of grey, which takes all it has in the way of character, its twitchings of stagnant life from them. Some have been distorted by solitude, others grimace with a directionless fervour; here there are masks of cherished lust, there faces ceaselessly sculpted and furrowed by mysticism. Human gargoyles, the only figures of interest in this monotonous population. ↗
#cathedrals-of-silence #dead-towns #human-gargoyles #the-bells-of-bruges #life
It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence. ↗
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself. ↗
#good-and-evil #philosophical #sad-but-true #truth #truth-of-life
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. ↗
