21-2-20

21-2-20

“Sitting on the pot, reading a book of poems, a large brown spider scuttles by my feet to hide behind a shelf. My wife is not there to shout, so I go back to reading my book and both of us continue on as if nothing had happened.”

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a sincere tear can contain more existential truth than countless books of philosophy… it can answer more questions than your heart even knew it asked… sit in silence, let silence overcome, and let tears wash all but the Truth away…

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.”

— Noam Chomsky

Winter light

Chez Aurélien Deleuze, his château in France, December 2019

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wordsnquotes)