food for thought
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Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but the most time during the association belongs to conversation.
Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them.
Punishment.
-A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does.
Women's friendships.- Women can enter into friendship with a man perfectly well; but in order to maintain it the aid of a little physical antipathy is perhaps required.
Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.
Proteus-Nature.- Through love women actually become what they appear to be in the imagination of their lovers.
Never in vain.- In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point to-day, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher to-morrow.
Unintentionally noble.- A person behaves with unintentional nobleness when he has accustomed himself to seek naught from others and always to give to them.
Against mediators.
-Those who wish to be mediators between two resolute thinkers are marked as mediocre: they lack eyes to see the unparalleled; seeing things as similar and making them the same is the mark of weak eyes.
The equilibrium of friendship.- The right equilibrium of friendship in our relation to other men is sometimes restored when we put a few grains of wrong on our own side of the scales.
What is the seal of attained freedom?
-No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
The conditions are lacking.- Many people wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.
Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
If one has character one also has one's typical experience, which recurs repeatedly.
What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Shadows in the flame.- The flame is not so bright to itself as to those whom it illuminates, so also the wise man.
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
Why one contradicts. One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the way in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.
In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired. -
Bravo. A post with genuine content. Though can't contribute to this, genuinely enjoy reading it. And only the first mail. Hope there is more to come.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal -
Yes, bravo again. Although I seriously can't see the laws of economics working the other way round, for indeed, it would be nice to see good money drives out bad money for a change.
cheerio!
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The heartless and souless fool. -
Those who live in the past cease to exist in the present,so it's time to stop dwelling on past mistakes and move on ahead,eheheOriginally posted by fais de beaux reves:Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.
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If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you on my plate,
I would eat you up and pray the Lord, i put on some weight
If I knew it would be the last time that I see you drop onto the floor,
I would call the waiter over and ask for 1 more.
If I knew it would be the last meal before i go to sleep,
I would sleep soundly knowing you are in my stomach deep.
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