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Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard

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Mar 11, 2015 09:48AM

“Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.

Be a connoisseur,
and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high.
Judge like a king, and choose the purest,

the ones unadulterated with fear,
or some urgency about "what's needed."

Drink the wine that moves you
as a camel moves when it's been untied,
and is just ambling about.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

tags: poetry, rumi

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“Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

tags: life

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“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe in the stability of reality. We know that it can fragment, like a sheet of glass or a car's windscreen. but we also know that reality can be invented, reordered, constructed, remade. Writing is, in itself, an act of violence perpetrated against reality.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

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