The argument

The argument that justice applies only to the finite is hard to refute.

Failure

A martyr, however favored, is a failure.

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A rehearsal (Roy)

Maybe that's what life is, or ends up being most of the time:  a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes.

Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Introspection

Introspection would be tedious and unrewarding in the extreme were it limited to our looking just at our own small selves. But it isn't. It's us looking at ourselves looking at the world.

Is art

The only thing humans do
that is justifiable
is art.

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Hard road

Hard road behind, getting longer.
Hard road in front, getting shorter.

The new order (Moore)

During the night something inside him had changed. Each time he thought things had reached a plateau of weirdness, something even weirder had happened. The result, he realized, was that he was now accepting anything that happened, no matter how weird, without resistance. Chaos was the new order in his life.

Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

Evil Spock says

Live wrong and prosper.

The struggle

We struggle to make sense of
what doesn't struggle.

Until you have understood

You can't do everything it takes to win
until you have understood that you might lose.

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It can happen (Levi)

It happened, therefore it can happen again:  this is the core of what we have to say.  It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

Primo Levi

Matters

It matters that it doesn't matter.

Aspiration

Aspiration is appetizer
to accomplishment's feast.

The study

The study of humanity
leads to self-loathing.

About being ruled (Lucas)

There's a reason why kings built large palaces, sat on thrones and wore rubies all over. There's a whole social need for that, not to oppress the masses, but to impress the masses and make them proud and allow them to feel good about their culture, their government and their ruler so that they are left feeling that a ruler has the right to rule over them, so that they feel good rather than disgusted about being ruled.

George Lucas

To ask

To ask "Why is there what there is?" is to ask "Why was there what there was?"

On taking

Take only what is replenished or doesn't require replenishment.