December 2011
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“A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the...”
– The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
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pensées
je pense donc je suis…
but if i don’t think, then what? do i not exist…
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confiteor deo
confiteor quia peccavi nimis, cogitatione verbo et opere mea culpa, mea maxima culpa…
April 2011
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“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
– The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
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la guerre
people will kill people until the end of time…we were born with such hatred, how else can we express our anger?
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marriage
Maman told me marriage was a contract. It was simply business.
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“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
– Tennessee Williams
March 2011
8 posts
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empty
I am no better than that crystal vase. I must sparkle and shine but it doesn’t matter if I am hollow inside. You can see right through me…
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narcissus
there is no greater tragedy than to fall in love with oneself because in there exists nothing…
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death
It does not matter who you are now…kings must face death in the end just as the beggars do.
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smile
his smiles are like the sun…it shines light everywhere except my darkness. he grants a smile to everyone but not for me it seems…
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February 2011
14 posts
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time
we are slaves to the clock…it is our master in every way. even if we were to break every clock in the world, time will never stop for us…
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“optima dies, prima fugit…
the best days are the first to flee…”
– Virgil
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death
life may be unfair but do not fret, death is an unforgiving equalizer…
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sea
One day in my childhood, I saw the sea. It was the most beautiful wondrous thing I ever saw and I cried. I realized that I would never feel this way again for I would never see anything as beautiful again…
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“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
– Anonymous
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love
The world fell silent when she turned. It was a moment I could never forget and one she would never remember. I was one in a handsome crowd…it was impossible for her to see me.
M. Antoine Kay
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“The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you…”
– Anonymous
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phase
Why must I be of the moon and you the earth?
You accuse me of changing, but it is you who changed…
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beauty
Do you not see?
Beauty fades…as snow melts to disappear and the leaves wither to die, so will you.
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seasons
winter, spring, summer, fall…then winter again. it never seems to matter if you are sad, lonely, alone…no one waits for you
“The way to know life is to love many things…”
– Vincent van Gogh
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l'art
art is beautiful. it inspires passion, happiness, despair…it lasts forever and we do not.
December 2009
30 posts
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“Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes...”
– Robert Frost
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“There is only one happiness in life…to love and to be loved.”
– George Sand
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“When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.”
– The Little Minister, J.M. Barrie
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“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders...”
– Middlemarch, George Eliot
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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holidays
I hate this season…everyone makes such a fuss over it, making it seem a bigger deal than it actually is.
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“Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived...”
– The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
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“We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.”
– Adam Bede, George Eliot
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hope
we should all take a sword to whoever first thought of hope…
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
– Middlemarch, George Eliot
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pity
The others know…they see that he has no interest. That’s when they look at me that way…with pity. That is what’s difficult to swallow…I can’t stand it more than the fact that he is not looking for me.
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“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds..”
– Adam Bede, George Eliot
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solitude
Being alone in paradise is really not paradise at all…
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To live is to feel…but what if I don’t feel? Do I not live?