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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

- Charles Bukowski

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Our mission, it seems, has to do with the mind.

We’re living in what they call the “Information Age,” but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own. The machine is malfunctioning, and we’re trying to think our way out of it. In 1961, Marxist philosopher Frantz Fanon wrote, “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.” Our mission, it seems, has to do with the mind.

— Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality (Atria/One Signal Publishers, April 9, 2024)

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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

— Genet, The Balcony; Le Balcon, 1956 (Grove Press, January 21, 1994) (via thoughts)

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I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?

— Langston Hughes, from "Tired" in American Marxist journal, New Masses (February 1931) (via @ReginaRosenfeld)

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Tomas Tranströmer, tr. by Robert Bly, from a poem titled “Track,”

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After midnight begins the intoxication of pernicious truths.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

― Herman Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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“Happiness, as we know, depends on such small details.”

— Jose Saramago, Raised From The Ground

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Come on in!, Charles Bukowski

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"Art is the expression of the deepest thoughts by the simplest means."

- Albert Einstein -

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Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

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Anne Sexton, from “Yellow.”

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Anne Sexton, from “Poems 1971-73,” in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton.

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Wisława Szymborska, “Children of Our Age”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)  

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In Egypt, libraries were called "the remedy for the soul's problems" because they cured the worst of all evils:

ignorance.

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William Butler Yeats

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— César Vallejo, from The Selected Writings; “Abraham Valdelomar Has Died.”

[Text ID: And I shall see you again and wrap my arms around you, like always, with all my soul, with all my heart.]