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“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself”

Winston Churchill

 

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On 10/9/2021 at 1:01 PM, Cult Icon said:

“Any moment might be our last.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

You will never be lovelier than you are now.

We will never be here again.”

― Homer, The Iliad

 

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Haley Bennett

Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.

 

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"We should strive, not to live long, but to live rightly;

 

for to achieve long life you have need of Fate only; 

 

but for right living you need the Soul "

 

Seneca

 

"The Greatest boon exists: the absence of regret for your own conduct"

 

Seneca

 

"How can these pleasures come readily to your call, if you are their lord rather than their slave"

 

Seneca

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You continue to struggle

 

Until Eternity

 

 

 

[Matt!]

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On 3/28/2022 at 11:11 AM, Matt! said:

 

 

 

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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.

 

Lao Tzu

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I had great plans

 

Nobody understood me

 

Oh, the opportunites I had..

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At times fate muddles our path

And life turns toilsome, hard to bear

Yet all deserve peace and respite in Death.

 

Tormented spirit! 

Forget your wrath!

Forget your grief!

 

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“For myself I want nothing. I live, as it were, between two graves.

One is that of Edmond Dantès, lost to me long, long since.

He had my love!

That word ill becomes my faded lip now,

but it is a memory dear to my heart,

and one that I would not lose for all that the world contains.

The other grave is that of the man who met his death from the hand of Edmond Dantès.

 

I approve of the deed, but I must pray for the dead.” 

 

Alexandre Dumas

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“a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard,

and who, concealed behind the sentry-box,

watched the scene with delight,

uttered these words in a low tone:

"Be happy, noble heart,

be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter,

and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

 

Alexandre Dumas

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"For all evils there are two remedies -- time and silence.

And now leave me, Monsieur Bertuccio, to walk alone here in the garden.

The very circumstances which inflict on you,

as a principal in the tragic scene enacted here,

such painful emotions,

are to me, on the contrary,

a source of something like contentment,

and serve but to enhance the value of this dwelling in my estimation.

The chief beauty of trees consists in the deep shadow of their umbrageous boughs,

while fancy pictures a moving multitude of shapes and forms flitting and passing beneath that shade.

Here I have a garden laid out in such a way as to afford the fullest scope for the imagination,

and furnished with thickly grown trees,

beneath whose leafy screen a visionary like myself may conjure up phantoms at will.

This to me, who expected but to find a blank enclosure surrounded by a straight wall, is, I assure you, a most agreeable surprise.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during six thousand years as is wrought by the living in a single day.

Retire within, Bertuccio, and tranquillize your mind.

Should your confessor be less indulgent to you in your dying moments than you found the Abbe Busoni,

send for me, if I am still on earth,

and I will soothe your ears with words that shall effectually calm and soothe your parting soul ere it goes forth to traverse the ocean called eternity."

 

Alexandre Dumas

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"I had lived long enough.....

Do I regret life?

What is it to me, who have passed twenty years between life and death?

Moreover, do not alarm yourself, Morrel; this weakness, if it is such, is betrayed to you alone.

I know the world is a drawing–room,

from which we must retire politely and honestly;

that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.”

 

Alexandre Dumas

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“thou who hast given me liberty, knowledge, riches;

thou who, like beings of a superior order to ourselves,

couldst understand the science of good and evil;

if in the depths of the tomb there still remain something within us

which can respond to the voice of those who are left on earth;

if after death the soul ever revisit the places where we have lived and suffered,

—then, noble heart, sublime soul,

then I conjure thee by the paternal love thou didst bear me,

by the filial obedience I vowed to thee,

grant me some sign, some revelation!

Remove from me the remains of doubt,

which, if it change not to conviction,

must become remorse!”

 

Alexandre Dumas

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“Count,” said Morrel, “you are the epitome of all human knowledge, and you seem like a being descended from a wiser and more advanced world than ours.”

“There is something true in what you say,” said the count, with that smile which made him so handsome; “I have descended from a planet called grief.”

Alexandre Dumas

 

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"I have just come to a realization!

This scroll by Broken Sword contains no secrets of his swordsmanship.

What this reveals is his highest ideal.

In the first state, man and sword become one and each other.

Here, even a blade of grass can be used as a lethal weapon.

 

In the next stage, the sword resides not in the hand but in the heart.

Even without a weapon, the warrior can slay his enemy from a hundred paces.

But the ultimate ideal is when the sword disappears altogether.

 

The warrior embraces all around him.

The desire to kill no longer exists.

Only peace remains."

 

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"I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes.

I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles.

I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags.

I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit,

and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot.

I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians.

 

I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream,

and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes.

I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain,

Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime.

I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon,

and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons."

 

Buddha

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Lambert says "Still waters run deep" in the Witcher 3.  A true proverb.

 

Still waters run deep - Wikipedia

 

Still waters run deep is a proverb of Latin origin now commonly taken to mean that a placid exterior hides a passionate or subtle nature. Formerly it also carried the warning that silent people are dangerous, as in Suffolk's comment on a fellow lord in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI part 2:

 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,

And in his simple show he harbours treason...

No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man

Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.

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"Ah it was too much, I almost drowned in it.  When everything is possible, it quickly becomes a lot less alluring."