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Jasmine

https://www.laweekly.com/the-phantom-jasmine/

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YOU MUST DARE TO DISASSOCIATE YOURSELF FROM THOSE WHO WOULO DELAY YOUR JOURNEY... LEAVE, DEPART, IF NOT PHYSICALLY, THEN MENTALLY. GO YOUR OWN WAY, QUIETLY, UNDRAMATICALLY AND VENTURE TOWARD TRUENESS AT LAST.

- VERNON HOWARD

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NEVER DID CHRIST UTTER A SINGLE WORD ATTESTING TO A PERSONAL RESURRECTION AND A UFE BEYOND THE GRAVE.

- LEO TOLSTOY

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT ANYTHING SO NATURAL, SO NECESSARY, AND SO UNIVERSAL AS DEATH. SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN DESIGNED BY PROVIDENCE AS AN EVIL TO I MANKIND

JONATHON SWIFT (1667- 1745)

WHAT GREAT MAN WAS EVER

CONSTANT? WHAT GREAT QUEEN WAS EVER FAITHFUL? NOVELTY IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF GENIUS AND ALWAYS WILL BE. IF I WERE TO DIE TOMORROW, THINK HOW I SHOULD HAVE LIVED.

- VIOLET KEPPEL

I DO NOT WILL MY BABY TO BE EXCEPTIONAL. IT IS THE EXCEPTION THAT INTERESTS TUE DEVIL. I WILL HIM TO BE COMMON,

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...AND NOBODY, NOBODY KNOWS WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ANYBODY BESIDES THE FORLORN RAGS OF GROWING OLD.

- JACK KEROUAC

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OH, THREATS OF HELL AND HOPES OF PARADISE!

ONE THING AT LEAST IS CERTAIN - THIS 4FE FLIES ONE THING IS CERTAIN. AND THE REST LIES THE FLOWER THAT ONCE HAS BLOWN FOREVER DIES.

- OMAR KHAYYAM

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ANY MANS DEATH DIMINISHES ME, BECAUSE I AM INVOLVED IN MANKIND; AND THEREFORE NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BEU TOUS; IT TOLS FOR THEE.

- JOHN BONNE, DEVOTIONS APON EMERGENT OCCASIONS

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ONE SHOULD DEPART FROM LIFE AS ULYSSES

PARTED FROM NAUSICAA - BLESSING IT RATHER THAN IN LOVE WITH IT.

- NIETZOHE

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LIFE SWINGS LIKE A PENDULUM BACKWARO ANO

FORWARD BETWEEN PAIN and BOREDOM

- schopenhaver

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THERE IS A TIME FOR DEPARTURE EVEN WHEN

THERÉS NO CERTAIN PLACE TO GO.

- TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

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THOUGH NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, GLORY IN THE FLOWER, WE WILL GRIEVE NOT; RATHER FIND STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS BEHIND.

-WORDSWORTH

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WE ARE NOT PROVIDED WITH WISDOM, WE MUST DISCOVER IT FOR OURSELES, AFTER A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN TAKE FOR US, AN EPPORT WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN SPARE US

- PRouSt

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I THINK WE SHOULD ALWAYS LOOK BACK UPON OUR PAST WITH A SORT OF TENDER CONTEMPT.

- DENNIS POTTER, 1935-94

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A QUICK TEST OF THE ASSERTION THAT ENJOYMENT OUTWEIGHS PAIN IN THIS WORLD. OR THAT THEY ARE AT ANY RATE BALANCEO. WOULD BE TO COMPARE THE FEELINGS OF AN ANIMAL ENGAGED IN EATING ANOTHER WITH THOSE OF THE ANIMAL BEING EATEN.

- SCHOPENHAMER

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Social Entropy is a measure of the natural decay within a social system. It can refer to the decomposition of social structure or of the disappearance of social distinctions. Much of the energy consumed by a social organization is spent to maintain its structure, counteracting social entropy, e.g., through legal institutions, education and even the promotion of television viewing.

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THING THEORY

A branch of critical theory that focuses on the role of things in literature and culture.

It borrows from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, whereby an object becomes a thing when it is somehow made to stand out against the backdrop of the world in which it exists.

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THE TINKERBELL EFFECT

The Tinkerbell effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them. The effect is named for Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience.

Claimed cases include:

• monetary system

• civil society

• the "rule of law"

• deities

• authority

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SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM

Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered (Calvino died before leaving Italy). The memos are lectures on the values of literature which Calvino felt were important for the coming millennium.

The memos are:

1. Lightness

2. Quickness

3. Exactitude

4. Visibility

5. Multiplicity

Calvino had finished all but the sixth: consistency