August 2011
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“our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. it hasn’t told us about the gutters or the suicides. or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to”
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“The moment you feel you are no longer dependent on anyone, a deep coolness and a...”
– Osho,
that’s how I drink my cup of thee
I can relate
With other people, when I try to speak my world, even if they do not reject what I am saying, they insist on having all the blanks filled in by me, clear sentences with precise meanings. When I try to do this, it brings it down to nothing. The life is gone. And then they say: “That’s nothing”. I have presented them with a cadaver, not a living being. I feel that I have desecrated...
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an...”
– Derrick Jensen (A Language Older Than Words)
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Listen
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“Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labeled impractical or contrary to...”
– Carl Sagan
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“and when love came to us twice
and lied to us twice
we decided to never love...”
– Charles Bukowski (What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire)
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He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.
Man Walks into a Room, 2002
Nicole Krauss
