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"“It is true, therefore, that prosperity can reward the very worst conduct, and that in the very midst of corruption and disorder life can be filled with all that men call happiness; that the example of misfortune everywhere pursuing virtue, and which we shall presently offer to our reader, does not torment honest people any the more.”" — 2 hours, 51 min ago
"“It is true, therefore, that prosperity can reward the very worst conduct, and that in the very midst of corruption and disorder life can be filled with all that men call happiness; that the example of misfortune everywhere pursuing virtue, and which we shall presently offer to our reader, does not torment honest people any the more.”" — 2 hours, 51 min ago
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"Exponentially improving information technology is a rising tide that lifts all the boats of the human condition. And we are now about to enter the period when this tide surges upward as never before. The key to this is artificial intelligence, which is now allowing us to turn many kinds of linearly advancing tech into exponential information technology—from agriculture and medicine to manufacturing and land use." — Dec 26, 2025 03:58PM
"Exponentially improving information technology is a rising tide that lifts all the boats of the human condition. And we are now about to enter the period when this tide surges upward as never before. The key to this is artificial intelligence, which is now allowing us to turn many kinds of linearly advancing tech into exponential information technology—from agriculture and medicine to manufacturing and land use." — Dec 26, 2025 03:58PM
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"“…[R]e-encountering someone you loved once and realizing that the effort of forgetting, condemning and turning bitter has had very little effect. But are you falling in love with the person or are you falling for the past, your own passage in time, and the mere idea of love? When you look at an old movie do you really re-examine it…? [O]r are you falling in line with a version of yourself and your pleasure?”" — Oct 26, 2025 04:10PM
"“…[R]e-encountering someone you loved once and realizing that the effort of forgetting, condemning and turning bitter has had very little effect. But are you falling in love with the person or are you falling for the past, your own passage in time, and the mere idea of love? When you look at an old movie do you really re-examine it…? [O]r are you falling in line with a version of yourself and your pleasure?”" — Oct 26, 2025 04:10PM
“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Collected Poems, 1909-1962
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.”
― The City of Trembling Leaves
― The City of Trembling Leaves
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
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