February 2012
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June 2011
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You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much...
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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May 2011
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We are like the spider.
We weave our life and then move along in it.
We are...
– Aitareya Upanishads
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On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere...
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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April 2011
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Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it...
– Don DeLillo, Underworld
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The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We...
– Li Po
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Almost very likely there is no seduction, almost very likely there is no stream,...
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
March 2011
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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be...
– May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
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Below the surface-stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say we feel—below the...
– Matthew Arnold
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Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in...
– Walter Benjamin
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February 2011
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to...
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams