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We're never the same person twice. ↗

— Jennifer-Crystal Johnson

#inspirational #thoughts-on-life #inspirational

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos que no sufrieron quebranto, como recuerdo de la simpleza de sus corazones, se transformaron en monos. ↗

— Popol Vuh

#death #dioses #fear #humanidad #humanity

From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor rate was charity, and therefore a proof of their benevolence; at the same time, wages were kept at starvation level by a method which just prevented discontent from developing into revolution...It was plainly the certainty, derived from the old Poor Law, that actual death would be averted by the parish authorities, which induced the rural poor of England to endure their misery patiently...it taught them respect for their 'betters'.While leaving all the wealth that they produced, beyond the absolute minimum required for subsistence, in the hands of the landowners and farmers. It was at this period that landowners built the sham Gothic ruins called 'follies', where they indulged in romantic sensibility about the past while they filled the present with misery and degradation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#exploitation #the-poor #death

you can pass a football,you can gas,but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed ↗

— Wendy Wunder

#the-probability-of-miracles #death

LIII. What is the holiness of conversation? It is to master death. ↗

— Anne Carson

#god #irony #death

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#inspirational #reality-of-life #inspirational

Ben Says: Set your rockets for the stars and go beyond...everything is possible in life!:) Timothy Pina Bullying Ben ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #inspirational

Luister goed: volg je hart, want slechts je hart kent de weg. ↗

— Tim Ray

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #faith #finding-joy #growing-up #hard-times

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and biological decay; sallow ugliness, sensuously marred and worsted, which nevertheless is able to fan its smouldering concupiscence to a pallid impotence, which from the glowing depths of the spirit draws strength to cast down a whole proud people at the foot of the Cross and set its own foot upon them as well; gracious poise and composure in the empty austere service of form; the false, dangerous life of the born deceiver, his ambition and his art which lead so soon to exhaustion --- ↗

— Thomas Mann

#decay #deceit #fiction #form #writers