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Thu 23 May 2024

Life

Posted by PJ under life, quote of the day
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“There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.”

—Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior

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Wed 27 Apr 2022

Absurd

Posted by PJ under absurdity, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.”

—Albert Camus, Alger Républicain, October 20, 1938

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Fri 4 Mar 2022

Phases

Posted by PJ under death, life, quote of the day, reincarnation, time
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“A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather is lessons that are learned.”

—Brian L. Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters

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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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“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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Tue 22 Feb 2022

Friend

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

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, 1923

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Thu 10 Feb 2022

Lives

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

“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Paris Review, Issue 195, Winter 2010

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Thu 11 Nov 2021

Lives

Posted by PJ under influences, life, necessity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.”

—Walter Mosley, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

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Fri 1 Oct 2021

Lives

Posted by PJ under history, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“they are hardly close to right,
these lives we live
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light and the way,
it’s not quite right,
it’s hardly right at all
he said.

—Charles Bukowski,
    “Cut While Shaving”

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Mon 26 Jul 2021

Life

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, life, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life—”

—Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

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Fri 9 Jul 2021

Picture

Posted by PJ under life, movies, quote of the day, uncertainty
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Random quote of the day:

“The whole of life is just like watching a [film]….Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

—Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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