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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to than I have ever known”
—Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
May 2012
32 posts
There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured man, in whom I am not also murdered and humiliated.
-Aime Cesaire, Et les chiens se taisaient
“Sometimes, I wish, I were a boat to take you wherever you want.
A boat, that could tolerate the burden on your shoulders,
A boat, that would never sink in the thunderstorm of your sadness” —Ahmad Shamlou
A boat, that could tolerate the burden on your shoulders,
A boat, that would never sink in the thunderstorm of your sadness” —Ahmad Shamlou
“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I’m not a very good American, because I like to form my own opinions.”
—George Carlin
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.”
—Ulysses, James Joyce
“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
—Thomas Huxley
