October 2009
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit...
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what we saw:
was just what it was, exactly. clarity. and isn’t it nice to remove the paint that dries our cracked lips into fragile, manufactured smiles every so often for the ones who love us regardless? the world sees strength and resiliance in the guises we keep. isnt that whats happening here? anything less than happy denail is self indulgence? its braver to turn it off - to turn away? escape the...
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O LOVE
is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. W. B. YEATS, “Brown Penny”
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