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Awareness

by Anthony de Mello

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Jan 15, 2026 12:44PM

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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

by Ailton Krenak

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Aug 28, 2025 03:53AM

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Jean Santeuil

by Marcel Proust

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Beki’s Quotes

“This is the meaning of philosophy, insofar as our condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves.”
― Deleuze Gilles, Bergsonism

tags: badly-stated-problems, duration, intuition, philosophy

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“Time remains the enemy; history must be spatialized. How? By seeing it as a circle, a wheel perpetually turning, the same events recurring again and again.”
― Anthony Burgess, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader

tags: dream, joyce, language, space, time

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“Human cities in particular, each one more or less according to its degree of perfection, surround the life of their inhabitants with poetry. They are images and reflections of the city and the world.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3

tags: cities, poetry, roots

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“it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: consciousness, fear, i-am

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“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

tags: autumn, solitude

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