February 2012
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and...
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will...
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You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high...
– Brave New World
January 2012
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These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill.
– Sylvia Plath, from ”Elm” (thank you, grimalkine)
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[We fall silent in midsentence,
all smiles, past help.]
Our humans
don’t know...
– Wisława Szymborska, from “An Unexpected Meeting” (translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh)
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December 2011
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
– Proverbs 18:21 (KJV)
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He said; ‘The sun gives life, and it takes it away,
But like all the...
– Rocky Took A Lover - Bell X1
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