Social divide (Solomon)

There is a basic social divide between those for whom life is an accrual of fresh experience and knowledge, and those for whom maturity is a process of mental atrophy. The shift toward the latter category is frightening.

Andrew Solomon

Sense & nonsense

Sense exists in nonsense
and nonsense exists in sense.
Not exclusively, but enthusiastically.

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Baked jalapeno "poppers"

From this recipe.

Not knowing

Not knowing should be an impetus to learning, not an excuse to invent an unfounded opinion.

The tyrant king (Fowles)

The eyes of the tyrant king
Who sees nothing, nothing, in each hope,
And nothing in each past but lies.

John Fowles, from "An Old Draft"

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On destiny

Destiny only exists in hindsight:
it is an illusion of position.

On redemption

Redemption is born not of forgiveness but of regret.

Ever

Ever distant, ever desired.
Ever desired, ever denied.

On ambition

Ambition has many forms, but if it is fueled by a desire for wealth, it isn't ambition, it's greed.

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An imaginary story (Harari)

Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the stronger the story becomes, because we desperately want to give meaning to these sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused.

Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

The failure

The failure is not in the confusion of the arrangement
but in the mistaken boundaries of our categories.