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Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones? ↗


— Tom Robbins


#death #immortality #life #permanence #stones

Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself in this case being himself? ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#clone #clones #knowledge #philosophy #socrates

Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet? ↗


— Ted Chiang


#cultural-differences #life

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first. ↗


— Rae Armantrout


#recognition #writing #life

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. ↗


— Alice Koller


#life

To do no evil is good, to intend none better. ↗


— Claudius


#evil #good #intend #none

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. ↗


— Christopher Morley


#kitty-foyle #pretending #life

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. ↗


— Raoul Vaneigem


#life

Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood ↗


— Suzanne Braun Levine


#life

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ↗


— Doug Larson


#fishing #important #important things #life #people






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