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Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling.

You own twice as much rug if you’re twice as aware of the rug.

Allen Ginsberg
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Closeup of Otter with Beads of Water in Her Fur

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It takes two to tell the truth; one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticize that person, you’ll be a mile away and have their shoes.
Anonymous
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Our statues! —Not of those that men desire, sleek
Odalisques, or oracles of mode.
Nor stunted squaws of West or East; but she
That taught the Sabine how to rule, and she
The foundress of the Babylonian wall,
The Carian Artemisia strong in war,
The Rhodope, that built the pyramid,
Clelia, Cornelia, with the Palmyrene
That fought Aurelian, and the Roman brows
Of Agrippina. Dwell with these, and lose
Convention, since to look on noble forms
Makes noble thro’ the sensuous organism
That which is higher.
from The Princess by Tennyson

mercurial (n):
  1. Quick and changeable in temperament; volatile.
  2. Of or relating to the god (or planet) Mercury.
  3. Having the characteristics of eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury 

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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
John Rogers
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The two best days to plant a tree are twenty years ago and tomorrow.
Chinese proverb

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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel García Márquez

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edatrix:

yes.

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chello, chehbye: you know when you're with someone...

vainvictoria:

a stranger and your being is completely vulnerable and they’re not making sexual advances, just flirting playfully and then there’s like this little moment where things could have gone to sexy town and you just shut it down because you dismissed it as a joke and then later, you realize that it…

For 21st century relationships, let me advise you unbidden: 

  • When in doubt about ‘escalations’with an attractive (subjectively so or otherwise) man, always make the first move. It only “messes up the friendship” when a man does that with a female friend. Strange, and perhaps unfair, but should be used to your advantage. Lots of high-quality, cool men are politely conditioned not to ruin potential partners with hasty moves.
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