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Fri 14 Jun 2019

No thing

Posted by PJ under being human, nothingness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”

—Michel Houellebecq, Platform (tr. Frank Wynne)

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Thu 9 May 2019

Filing

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Random quote of the day:

“Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”

—Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

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Tue 12 Mar 2019

Omnibus

Posted by PJ under being human, death, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

—Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

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Fri 21 Sep 2018

Never quite right

Posted by PJ under being human, poetry, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“all the things we are
taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we
die, all the lives we live,
they are never quite right…”

—Charles Bukowski, “Cut While Shaving”

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Fri 31 Aug 2018

On your own

Posted by PJ under being human, growth, human nature, quote of the day, solitude, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“You can survive on your own; can grow strong on your own; prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

—Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days

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Fri 16 Feb 2018

Empty rooms

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.”

—François Mauriac, Journal, 1932-1939

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Thu 25 Jan 2018

No saints

Posted by PJ under asceticism, being human, quote of the day, saints, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that ‘non-attachment’ is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”

—George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”

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Fri 10 Nov 2017

Fragile

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Random quote of the day:

“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”

—Jane Hirshfield, “Vinegar and Oil,” Come, Thief

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Wed 1 Nov 2017

Ourselves

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Random quote of the day:

“What we really have to share is not any spiritual treasure we imagine we have stored up, but our poverty, our common human situation, our inability to know.”

—Tracy Cochran, “The Night I Died,” Parabola, Summer 2013

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Thu 27 Aug 2015

Monkey missed the mark

Posted by PJ under being human, quote of the day, salvation
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Random quote of the day:

“The power that produced Man when the monkey was not up to the mark, can produce a higher creature than Man if Man does not come up to the mark. What it means is that if Man is to be saved, Man must save himself.”

—George Bernard Shaw, Introduction, Back to Methuselah

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