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Fri 25 May 2018

Smoking

Posted by PJ under angels, quote of the day, stars
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Random quote of the day:

“The angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”

—Vladimir Nabokov, letter to his wife Vera, 17 January 1924

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Thu 24 May 2018

Wrestling

Posted by PJ under angels, daimons and demons, forgiveness, light, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

—August Wilson, quoted by Seattle Repertory Theatre

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Wed 23 May 2018

Sister

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, that which abides
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Random quote of the day:

“We do not actually know it, but we sense it: our life has a sister vessel which plies an entirely different route.”

—Tomas Tranströmer, “The Blue House” (tr. Göran Malmqvist)

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Tue 22 May 2018

Wonder

Posted by PJ under knowledge, quote of the day, wonder
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Random quote of the day:

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.”

—Abraham J. Heschel, Man Is Not Alone

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Thu 17 May 2018

Moments

Posted by PJ under becoming, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“Moments not quite ready to be shaped are already there, waiting, and we feel their presence.”

—Robert Penn Warren, The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1957, No. 16

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Wed 16 May 2018

Meeting death

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

“Man does not die. Man imagines that it is death he fears; but what he fears is the unforeseen, the explosion. What man fears is himself, not death. There is no death when you meet death.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, tr. Lewis Galantiere

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Tue 15 May 2018

The record

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man’s complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.”

—John Cheever, National Book Award acceptance speech for The Writer, September 1958

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Mon 14 May 2018

Stained glass

Posted by PJ under beauty, light, quote of the day, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, quoted in The Leader’s Digest by Jim Clemmer

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Thu 10 May 2018

Letting go

Posted by PJ under happiness, letting go, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.”

—Robert Brault, Twitterfeed, 2012

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Wed 9 May 2018

Deep

Posted by PJ under flowers, light, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

—Theodore Roethke, Notebooks 1949-50

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