What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?
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The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best
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Hmm, you're right. I first read this sentence for the first time as an epigraph for a violently anti-patriotic, individualistic, fantastic and oniric book which gave me this impression.
After a bit of digging, I still think there's something of my interpretation in the original material (a lettre from Vaché to Aragon from the battlefield), but it's also a dadaist piece, so not so easy to decipher, in which he wishes for the death of his own generals, somehow talks about killing Germans while wearing a monocle and, all of them soldiers, French and German, being slowly decerebrated. He was fighting and killing although he was still against the war, seemed to be borderline self-destructing, dandy, rebelling, talking multiple times about how war changed him for the worse in both his mind and his body, crippled for life too. He died at 23 from an opium overdose.So there is certainly more to it, but I suppose my interpretation isn't totally absurd.
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Oh, thanks for the details!
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Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.
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Comparison is the thief of joy. I think a lot of people could do with that one.
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With that username and that quote, I expect that you are (like me) in your 60s.
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It sounds like you might like "The Tao of Pooh".
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"we are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. it is only through love and relationships that we create the illusion that we are not alone"
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“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Made absolutely no sense to me when I was younger. Now, I get that it means changing one’s location or situation in an effort to avoid something doesn’t work. You’re still you, you’re there, and the problem still exists. Obviously some situations can be improved by leaving them, so the statement isn’t completely correct, but there’s plenty of truth to it.
“You can never go home again” also used to bug me, because of course you can physically return to the places you grew up. But if you’ve been away a good while the place you grew up in might have changed, the people will have changed, and you will also have changed. Home will be where you have made a new life. Your old home will be like trying to put on a shoe you haven’t worn in a few years. Yeah, it fits, but it doesn’t feel right. It’s not comfortable like it used to feel. Home isn’t there anymore. I kinda envy some people that I know who never left my hometown. They have the same friends, been hanging out for years, still get together for family stuff…but at the same time I’ve experienced a shitload more than they have. My original home doesn’t exist for me anymore.
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If the point of this one is to emphasize how no one lives your life except for you, that’s great and all but holy shit there are less depressing ways of getting that across.
Humanity is a social animal. If you live your life under the guidance that loneliness is omnipresent and companionship is merely an illusion I strongly urge you to rethink the way you go about your days. Find people to talk to in person and do things with them.
I think capitalism and the ruling class has desperately tried to convince everyone that they are alone because if the working class sees themself as one body the ruling class is fucked
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"Feelings are like children, you can't let them drive, but you can't put them in the trunk."
But I feel that one has a ¨spiritual parent¨:
"Educate a child so you don't have to reprimand an adult."
and a ¨spiritual sibling¨:
"If your only tool is a Hammer then every problem looks like a Nail."
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt" - Often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln but the earliest record is Maurice Switzer
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It is said that cameras don't lie, but we must remember that liars use cameras. - Michael Parenti
This is a statement on the bias of all media, i like to use the same quote regarding statistics too.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984
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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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i mean that's been every war to date except some revolutions
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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" - Stephen Daedalus in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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"If they knew better, they'd do better."
