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History repeats itself: first as tragedy, second as farce.

So, we'll go no more a roving
   So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
   And the moon be still as bright.
 
For the sword outwears its sheath,
   And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
   And love itself have rest.
 
Though the night was made for loving,
   And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
   By the light of the moon.
 
Lord Bryon
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

When looking at my instagram account:

 

“I had not thought death had undone so many”

 

Dante 

 

Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.

 

Eliot

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"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

 

Thucydides

 

(Your personal) History is a pattern of timeless moments

 

Eliot

Many people sweat and toil and feel satisfied that they have accomplished many things. However, in the end we are not all that different from this polished piece of bone. In a hundred years, everyone we know will be just a pile of bones. What is there to gain in life, and what is there to lose in death?

 

Liezi

“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow.”

 

Zhuangzi

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”


René Descartes

  • 5 weeks later...

“We should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time”


― Philip Larkin

  • 3 weeks later...

"Don't make the mistake to think because I grew up without running water that I am simple General...

 

I do know something of history

 

See all this? It's simply shaping tomorrow

 

A tomorrow without a lot of Arkansas white boys' ideas in it..."

 

 

 

Is it necessary that every single person on this planet, expresses every single opinion that they have on every single thing that occurs all at the same time?

Is that… is that necessary?

 

Or to ask in a slightly different way, can… can anyone shut the fuck up?

Can… can anyone, any… any… any one, any single one, can any one… shut the fuck up about anything–

About any… any single thing?

Can any single person shut the fuck up about any single thing for an hour?

You know, is that… is that possible?

 

- Bo Burnham

  • 2 weeks later...

If you set a high value on liberty,

 

You must set a low value on everything else..

 

Seneca

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