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Leonard Cohen
Only one thing made him happy
and now that it was gone
everything made him happy -
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HOW MUCH WILL YOU INDULGE IN YOUR FLAWS? -
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I'm trying really hard I think. -
Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Last week at the Toxic Waste Dump, Harmony asked me what I thought would be the coolest way to die. Before I reflexively blurted out a stock response like 'naked in a car crash with the tunage cranked to eleven' I paused and thought of a person like me, growing up in a flower-free part of the world and driving to the ocean in a little blue sports ( Read more... ) -
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I don't give up anymore. -
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Do you? Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. you do. You call it "opening your eyes again." But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless... endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can ( Read more... ) -
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself. -
Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
"Anne was tired of searching for nutritious choices. She wanted to fall instead of climb, to be swept off her feet by obsession. A skidding, careening romance, the more torrid the better. She wanted to throw herself into the rapids just to see what the world might look like once she'd crawled out onto the bank." -
charles bukowski
the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience--
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.
-lifedance -
Salinger, "Teddy"
"'What would you do if you could change the educational system?' he asked ambiguously. 'Ever think about that at all ( Read more... )