kyleschen

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Our life is part folly, part wisdom. Whoever writes about it only reverently and according to the rules leaves out more than half of it.

Montaigne

05/29/13

05/1/13

Sigmund Freud on what to do with death

05/1/13

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Then out spake brave Horatius,
the Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods

The Lays of Ancient Rome

04/28/13

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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

Walt Whitman

04/5/13

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It will cause no commotion to remind you of it’s swiftness, but glide on quietly… What will be the outcome? You have been preoccupied while life hastens on. Meanwhile death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that.

Seneca

03/21/13

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a carefree man; Lack of care is a truly painless evil.

Sophocles

03/21/13

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

02/11/13

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

11/24/12

vonnegutphile:

“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other- child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death.

But this was the counterweight, the acts of binding and holding. As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other’s hand to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.”

—Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Artwork: “Copulating” by Alex Grey

10/8/12

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