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    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    ― Heraclitus

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    “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
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    “Always having what we want
    may not be the best good fortune
    Health seems sweetest
    after sickness, food
    in hunger, goodness
    in the wake of evil, and at the end
    of daylong labor sleep.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments

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    “Stupidity is doomed,
    therefore, to cringe
    at every syllable
    of wisdom.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments

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    “Time does not have the same appeal for every one”
    ― William Shakespeare

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    “There is a tide in the affairs of men
    Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
    Omitted, all the voyage of their life
    Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
    On such a full sea are we now afloat;
    And we must take the current when it serves,
    Or lose our ventures.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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    “The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
    ― George Santayana

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    “There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”
    ― George Santayana

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    “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
    ― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

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    “We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?”
    ― George Santayana

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    “If you have a dog and you love him too much, then some day you will have to bark yourself.”
    ― Vikrant Parsai

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    "Live for now, later will come soon enough".

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    “Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
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    “just heard a commercial
    which told me
    Farmer John smokes his own
    bacon.
    now, there's one tough
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    bitch.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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    “And yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women

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    “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

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    “Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”
    ― Galileo Galilei

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    ^ Indeed. Rather poignant regarding Sarah, whose quote here is so resonant, yet who committed suicide.

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    “Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
    Sarah Kane

    Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form, and, in her earlier work, the use of stylized violent stage action. Kane's life was brought to a premature end when she committed suicide at London's King's College Hospital. Her published work consists of five plays and one short film, Skin.

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    “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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    “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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    “Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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    2014 Parole Hearings Man: Momo your files say you've served six years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated?

    momo: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means.


    2014: Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society...at Teakdoor.

    momo: I know what you think it means, sonny. To me, it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job and moderate. Rule the world, that's fine. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?

    2014: Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?

    momo: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. Nic swapping, I was just a young girl, I want to talk to her. I want to try to talk some sense to her, tell her the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, so and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. Well I do but I don't bleed.

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    “Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now, how can I help him? What should I tell him? Well, I refrained from telling him anything but instead confronted him with the question, “What would have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to survive you?” “Oh,” he said, “for her this would have been terrible; how she would have suffered!” Whereupon I replied, “You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it was you who have spared her this suffering — to be sure, at the price that now you have to survive and mourn her.” He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left my office. In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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    “Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?”
    ― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

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    “There's a race of men that don't fit in,
    A race that can't sit still;
    So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
    They range the field and rove the flood,
    And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
    And they don't know how to rest.”
    ― Robert W. Service

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