May 2013
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“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. ...”
– Buddha (via inheavenalliswell)
April 2013
3 posts
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Monet Refuses The Operation
by Lisel Mueller
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don’t see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water, so...
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“My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity if...”
– Wisława Szymborska, Under One Small Star (via the-reluctant-optimist)
“Freedom is lost if you are trapped inside the rules, but it is also lost if you...”
– The Eye Never Sleeps, Dennis Geno Merzel
March 2013
5 posts
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“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And,...”
– Sir Walter Scott, as quoted in Groundhog Day.
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January 2013
6 posts
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via platea)
“The highest form of intelligence is no attachment to any outcome.”
– (via nirvikalpa)
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“On the scales of desire, your absence weighs more
than someone else’s presence,...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, Absence (via idterab)
December 2012
3 posts
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My Top 10 Books of 2012
A confession first: I did not read much this year; just about 18 books. A new job and my propensity to juggle books according to my mood meant my effort was dissipated over a large number of incomplete books. Adding audiobooks to the mix didn’t help either.
Here are my top books of 2012:
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
The Sleepwalkers, Arthur...
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“The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations (via zerogate)
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November 2012
4 posts
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“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it...”
– The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart, Jack Gilbert 1925 - 2012 (via grammatolatry)
October 2012
8 posts
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I didn’t want my life to go the way of all life – to be born only to wander through experiences, to wonder at the sameness of those experiences, to want other experiences, to tire of wandering and wondering and wanting, to live at the end in remembrance of experiences, and to die – without wonder, memory, or experience. -Margaret Anderson
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September 2012
8 posts
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Crow's Highlights
Please follow my other tumblr/blog at http://www.oodalooper.com, where I share my Kindle highlights and other interesting stuff.
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August 2012
14 posts
