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02 Nov 2024, 7:27 am

"Would you like an adventure now, or shall we have our tea first?"

“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us."

— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


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03 Nov 2024, 10:38 am

[H]ow oft—
In darkness and amid the many shapes
Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart—
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,
O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!

And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years.

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I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.—And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,—both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.

— Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”


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03 Nov 2024, 2:56 pm

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

— Woolf, A Room of One’s Own


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03 Nov 2024, 5:11 pm

"In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them"

Jules Verne - Five weeks in a balloon



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04 Nov 2024, 10:09 am

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


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04 Nov 2024, 6:22 pm

"We make only a small blaze, and then we go out; but in his springtime and his summer he had burned brightly enough, and he did not feel he had earned this sullen, joyless autumn."

Robert Silverberg, The Man in the Maze



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04 Nov 2024, 9:40 pm

“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”

― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth


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04 Nov 2024, 9:47 pm

I recommend book: when I'm old I'm going to wear purple!! !

Reminds me of being a child and watching the old lady at hairdresser have short hair dyed purple, then two hours to curl the hair.
I'm not woke, I'm just not in touch with reality, anymore.



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05 Nov 2024, 7:55 am

^ I think you mean this poem -

"Warning" by Jenny Joseph.


When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.

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I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired,
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells,
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

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I shall go out in my slippers in the rain,
And pick flowers in other people’s gardens,
And learn to spit.

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You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat,
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go,
Or only bread and pickle for a week,
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

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But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
And pay our rent and not swear in the street,
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

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But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised,
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

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05 Nov 2024, 1:06 pm

^ Thanks for posting it! :heart:


Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray:

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

:lol:

I love Oscar Wilde.



“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre


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05 Nov 2024, 4:02 pm

"Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested."

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein



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05 Nov 2024, 4:52 pm

I am neither for nor against apathy - Unknown



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06 Nov 2024, 8:35 am

Carl Sagan’s books have been especially meaningful to me. This passage is from Pale Blue Dot:

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.


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07 Nov 2024, 8:13 am

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

— George Orwell, 1984

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

— Plato’s allegory of the cave from The Republic


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08 Nov 2024, 12:33 pm

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man


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09 Nov 2024, 10:49 am

Sonnet 116 has been on my mind a lot lately. The first few lines come into my head whenever I’m out for a walk. It probably means that it’s almost time to return to Shakespeare and that I’m a romantic but don’t tell anyone.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


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