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“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski

“أنا أستقيل من الإنسانية. لم أعد أريد أن أكون, ولم أعد قادرا على أن أكون -إنسانا. ماذا سأفعل؟ أخدم الأنظمة الإجتماعية والسياسية؟, أسود حياة إمرأة ؟ أتصيد نقاط الضعف في النظم الفلسفية, أناضل من أجل القيم الأخلاقية والجمالية؟ كل ذلك هراء. أنبذ إنسانيتي , حتى وان كنت سأجد نفسي وحيدا. ولكن أنا وحيد على كل حال في هذا العالم الذي لم أعد أنتظر منه أي شيء.”
― إميل سيوران