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“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise”
― David Zindell, The Broken God

“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit. Their trio of holy catechisms is: faith is more important than reason; inputs are more important than outcomes; hope is more important than reality. It was designed to choke your independent thinking and acting—to bring out the lowest common denominator in people—so that vast amounts of the general public would literally buy into sponsorship and preservation of their hegemonic nation. Their greatest achievement was the creation of the two-party political system; it gave only the illusion of choice, but never offered any change; it promised freedom, but only delivered more limits. In the end, you got stuck with two leading loser parties and not just one. It completed their trap of underhanded domination, and it worked masterfully. Look anywhere you go. America is a nation of submissive, dumbed-down, codependent, faith-minded zombies obsessed with celebrity gossip, buying unnecessary goods, and socializing without purpose on their electronic gadgets. The crazy thing is that people don't even know it; they still think they're free. Everywhere, people have been made into silent accomplices in the government's twisted control game. In the end, there is no way out for anyone.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and our own teleological evolutionary advancment. It is the future. We are the future like it or not. And it needs to molded, guided, and handled correctly by the strength and wisdom of transhumanist scientists with their nations and resources standing behind them, facilitating them. It needs to be supported in a way that we can make a successful transition into it, and not sacrifice ourselves—either by its overwhelming power or by a fear of harnessing that power. You need to put your resources into the technology. Into our education system. Into our universities, industries, and ideas. Into the strongest of our society. Into the brightest of our society. Into the best of our society So that we can attain the future.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore. It's a mindless goliath wandering the Earth, devouring lives, erasing potential, and following its every whim—regardless of how irrational, obscene, uneducated, enslaving, or backwards its actions are. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”
― Charles Olson

“Knowledge is the harvest of attention”
― Charles Olson

“Whatever you have to say, leave
The roots on, let them
Dangle

And the dirt

Just to make clear
Where they come from.”
― Charles Olson

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something?
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that!”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“All life long, the same questions, the same answers.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I think there is no light in the world
but the world

and I think there is light”
― George Oppen

“Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Um homem da aldeia de Neguá, no litoral da Colômbia, conseguiu subir ao céu.
Quando voltou contou que tinha contemplado, lá do alto, a vida humana. E disse que somos um mar de fogueirinhas.
- O mundo é isso - revelou - Um montão de gente, um mar de fogueirinhas.
Cada pessoa brilha com luz própria entre todas as outras. Não existem duas fogueiras iguais. Existem fogueiras grandes e fogueiras pequenas e fogueiras de todas as cores. Existe gente de fogo sereno, que nem percebe o vento, e gente de fogo louco, que enche o ar de chispas. Alguns fogos, fogos bobos, não alumiam nem queimam; mas outros incendeiam a vida com tamanha vontade que é impossível olhar para eles sem pestanejar, e quem chegar perto pega fogo.”
― Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.”
― Robert Duncan

“PRELIMINARY EXERCISE:

What does a turbine veil? a bird avail what chord?
I heard a bird whir no word, felt
a turbine shadow turning from the floods of time
electric currents the darkness stirrd,
and trees in blaze of light arose
casting shadows of speech, seductive, musical, abroad.
It was a single tree. It was a word of many trees
that filld the vale.
It was a store of the unspoken in the bird
that whirrd the air, that every occasion of the word
overawed.”
― Robert Duncan

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover