I am prepared to grovel. To humiliate myself abjectly, because, in the circumstances, silence would be indefensible. So those of you who are willing: let’s pick our parts, put on these discarded costumes and speak our second-hand lines in this sad second-hand play. But let’s not forget that the stakes we’re playing for are huge. Our fatigue and our shame could mean the end of us. The end of our children and our children’s children. Of everything we love. We have to reach within ourselves and find the strength to think. To fight.
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and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
— kahlil gibran
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. And on a quiet day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing.
— Arundhati Roy
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we long intensely for more time - time to become whole, to recover the theft of meaning, to locate our coordinates in the world - but everywhere we look we find only the heartless fact of finitude.
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You can be deeply certain, and slightly doubtful.
You can be scared, and really, really ready.
You can give it your all, and then give it over to the universe.
You can have everything to lose and everything to gain.
…I’m banking on it.
Love your doubts. Stay awake.
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The person who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind with the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason…
— Bertrand Russell
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being.
— Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (via mfoucault)
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Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.
— - Elliott Kay
(Source: notevenbreathe, via booklover)
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1. The sea will lure you into oblivion.
2. The sea is inconceivably bigger than me.
3. The sea is a mirror. If I’m happy, it will be happy. If I’m sad, it will be sad.
4. The sea doesn’t know what time it is, since time lies in the sea itself.
5. The sea is a living creature, and no breathing movement of it is equal to the previous.
6. The sea will kick your sorry human ass, no matter what, anytime.
7. The sea will bore you to death.
8. Or it could make you feel like a kid again.
9. The sea is both heaven and hell. And the living soul can only guess what awaits beneath.
10. The sea knows something that we don’t.
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
— - Louis Aragon
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