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Wed 29 May 2019

Happiness

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Random quote of the day:

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

—Margaret Lee Runbeck, A Hungry Man Dreams

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Tue 28 May 2019

Desire

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Random quote of the day:

“We never desire ardently what we desire rationally.”

—François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims and Moral Reflections, Maxim 282

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Fri 24 May 2019

Much ado

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Random quote of the day:

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

—Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams

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Thu 23 May 2019

Hauntings

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

“I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.”

—Janet Frame, quoted in her obituary, The Telegraph, 30 January 2004

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Wed 22 May 2019

Masks

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

“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them—the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

—W. H. Auden, “One of the Family,” Forewards and Afterwords

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Tue 21 May 2019

Dreamless

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

“But what is all this fear of, and opposition to, Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

—James Thurber, “I Believe, I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Certain Eminent Men and Women of Our Time”

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Mon 20 May 2019

Armies

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

“An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”

—Moroccan proverb

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Fri 17 May 2019

Books

Posted by PJ under books, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read—ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

—Søren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way

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Thu 16 May 2019

Normal

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

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Wed 15 May 2019

Liar?

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“Is the artist a liar, or simply one for whom even a fact is not a fact?”

—Ned Rorem, interview, The Paris Review, No. 150, Spring 1999

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