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Wed 12 Apr 2023

Solitude

Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day, solitude
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“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

—Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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Mon 10 Apr 2023

Love

Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

—Edward Abbey, Down the River

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Wed 5 Apr 2023

Memory

Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day
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“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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Tue 4 Apr 2023

Change

Posted by PJ under censorship, change, conversations, quote of the day, stories, words
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Random quote of the day:

“The key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship. That’s why I want people to understand what the words we use—and the stories we tell—are really about.

—Jay-Z, Decoded

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Mon 3 Apr 2023

Oracles

Posted by PJ under gods, language, oracles, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Oracles are never what they seem. For oracles to be oracles they have to contain something hidden. The more you think you understand them the less you probably do. That’s where the danger lies. As ancient Greeks said, the words spoken by oracles are like seeds. They contain a fullness, a pregnancy of meaning, dimensions of relevance that only become apparent with time. Human language is like a splinter: fragmented, isolated, sticking out in one direction. But the language of the gods is full of surprises that surround you from all directions and jump out on you from behind.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Wed 29 Mar 2023

Sun

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, renewal, sunrise
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Random quote of the day:

“The sun is new
again, all day.

—Heraclitus, Fragment 32 (tr. Brooks Haxton)

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Tue 28 Mar 2023

Thumb

Posted by PJ under decisions, money, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects, and you don’t turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it’s all going to end. I made ‘Cop III’ because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert’s thumb up my ass.”

—Eddie Murphy, interview, Newsweek, June 30, 1996

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Mon 27 Mar 2023

Lives

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the human condition, time, wanting
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Thu 23 Mar 2023

Thin Places

Posted by PJ under liminality, quote of the day, thin places
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Random quote of the day:

“There are places…which are so thin that you meet yourself in the still point. Like the lifting of the silky veil on Samhain, you’re held in the space in between. No matter the past, the present or what is yet to come. There’s nothing you can do but listen for the gap in the silence, the change in the wind. The right moment, when it comes, calls you up, up; calls you into a wind that lifts you. A wind that carries you with it, on its sails.

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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Wed 22 Mar 2023

Worlds

Posted by PJ under art, creation, quote of the day, worldbuilding, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

—Anais Nin, diary, February 1954

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