Matt Valentine
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Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
“Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
― A New Path to the Waterfall
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
― A New Path to the Waterfall
“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― The Odes of Horace
― The Odes of Horace
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