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- Nov 07, 2020
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- How
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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You can't test courage cautiously.
- Energy
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Defends
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
- Imagination
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Discovers
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
- Loneliness
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- Hell
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Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
- Love
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- Birthday
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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020