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by tom waits:Misery's the River of the WorldMisery's the River of the WorldThe higher that the monkey can climbthe more he shows his tailCall no man happy 'til he diesThere's no milk at the bottom of the pailGod builds a churchThe devil builds a c... | Read More
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It is the same with men as with horses and dogs - no one wants to die. | Read More
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Rudy's on the midwayAnd Jacob's in the holeThe monkey's on the ladderThe devil shovels coalWith crows as big as airplanesThe lion has three headsAnd someone will eat the skin that he shedsAnd the earth died screamingThe earth died scre... | Read More
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to be a foolish cripple or a crippled fool? How come it that a cripple does not offend us, but that a fool does? Because a cripple recognises that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; If it were not s... | Read More
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Then death, so called, is but old matter dressed In some new figure, and varied vest; Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies; And here and there the unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossessed, And lodges, where it li... | Read More
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What astonishes me most is to see that all the world is not astonished at its own weakness. Men act seriously, and each follows his own mode of life, not because it is in fact good to follow since it is the custom, but as if each man knew certainl... | Read More
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Will it be mathematical or intuitive? In the mathematical - the principles are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that for want of habit it is difficult to turn one's mind in that direction: but if one turns it in that direction... | Read More
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If art just performs the act required to make a possible object actual, adequately to our cognition of that object, then it is mechanical art; but if what it intends directly is to arouse the feeling of pleasure, then it is called aesthetic a... | Read More
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History is being made all the time - even when it isn't. I am reminded of my near-sitedness in recent games in which my Queen was taken at no loss to my apponant. Sometimes it is the little things that get to you. Here is an ... | Read More
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This game seems to be about passion and thinking. Paradox is not a bad thing here. Paradox seems to be the passion of thought, and a thinker without paradox is like a lover without passion. The potentatiation of every passion is ... | Read More