Archive for May, 2024

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Tue 28 May 2024

Memories

Posted by PJ under memories, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“All we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

—Matt Haig, How To Stop Time

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 23 May 2024

Life

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

“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

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 20 May 2024

Mountain

Posted by PJ under contemplation, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.”

—Li Po (China, 701-762) (tr. Sam Hamill)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 16 May 2024

Spirit

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Random quote of the day:

“The force of spirit is only as great as its expression, its depth only as deep as it dares to spread out and lose itself in its display.”

—G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (tr. Michael Inwood)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 14 May 2024

Fact

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

“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

—Robert Graves, The White Goddess

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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