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Wed 7 Jun 2023

Tower

Posted by PJ under aging, poetry, quote of the day, sorrow, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“When young, I did not know the taste of sorrow.
I went up the tower.
I went up the tower
to write a poem on pretended sorrow.

By now I’ve completely tasted sorrow, but already
I do not want to speak about it.
I do not want to speak about it,
I only say: what a beautiful, cold autumn.”

—Xin Qiji
(28 May 1140 – 3 Oct 1207)


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Mon 25 Jul 2022

Pearl

Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”

—Pearl Bailey, The Raw Pearl

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Thu 3 Mar 2022

Perfectibility

Posted by PJ under aging, life, perfection, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“The art of mid-life is surely always cloudier than the art of youth, as life itself gets cloudier. But it would be disingenuous to pretend it is only that. I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs. This fact, still obscure to the twenty-one-year-old, is a little clearer to the woman of forty-one.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimisim and Despair,” Feel Free

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Mon 11 May 2020

Stone

Posted by PJ under education, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“Learning while young is like carving in stone.”

—Arabian proverb

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Fri 21 Feb 2020

Fountain

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

“The heart is the real fountain of youth.”

—Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

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Thu 17 Oct 2019

Robots

Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day, satire, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“You have one thing that may save you, and that is your youth. This is your great strength. It is also why I hate and fear you. Hear me out. It has been said that children are our future. But does that not also mean that we are their past? You are here to replace us. I don’t understand why we’re here helping and honoring them. You do not see union workers holding benefits for robots.”

—Stephen Colbert, Knox College commencement address, June 3, 2006

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Fri 9 Aug 2019

Face

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

“Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

—Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts

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Tue 2 Jul 2019

Cranky

Posted by PJ under aging, irony, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.”

—Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts

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Tue 4 Dec 2018

Gaucheries

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

“One remembers one’s youthful behavior as nobody else does; one blushes for gaucheries nobody else has noticed.”

—Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man

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Fri 16 Nov 2018

Age

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

“Youth has no age.”

—Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: What He Said by Narim Bender

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