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Leisure: The Basis of Culture

by Josef Pieper

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Jun 21, 2019 01:52PM

“To Know the Dark"

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
― Wendell Berry, Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry

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“Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
Fish, be flies.
Girls, take beards.
Sons, be your mothers.
The future of the world now lies
In coral wombs behind our eyes.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

tags: dreaming, empathy, inspirational, poetry

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“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: melancholy

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“Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: admiration, admire, admirer, be-patient, calm, don-t-make-haste, don-t-rush, fall-in-love, feel, feelings, food-for-thought, haste, i-love-you, israelmore-ayivor, love, love-is-patient, love-you, lover, loves, loving, lust, lusting, lusts, passion, patience, patient, quick, quickly, real-love, take-time, too-quick, true-love

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“Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret.”
― David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising

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