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Waves in the Mind
As for the mot juste you are quite wrong. Style is a very simple matter: it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words. But on the other hand here I am sitting here half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can’t dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it…
~ Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West
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We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is missing
~ From Sumitro Sinha
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Be careful when democracy is sick. Fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.
~ Albert Camus
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The meaning of life is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple, and yet, everyone rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
