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[Aurora]

"The years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready."

— Helen Mirren

[PervySageChuck]

"The best ten years of a woman's life are between the ages of thirty-nine and forty."

 

anonymous stand up comic

[Aurora]

“Just speak your mind honestly. That's the best thing. It may hurt a little sometimes, and someone may get upset, but in the long run, it's for the best.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[PItiful Boar]

 

From Roland Kelts, The Japanese Soul: 

 

"...even the concept of kawaii, or the extreme cuteness in Japanese pop icons like Hello Kitty, Pikachu from Pokemon and the Tamagotchi virtual electronic pets, emanates from the wounds of World War II and the American occupation. Evolution teaches us that cuteness is a symptom of dependence, urging adults to care of infants, puppies and kittens who are, after all, entirely helpless. A Japan shaped by its reliance upon big brother/big daddy America would naturally perfect this form of expression...."

 

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And ladies and gent, that is the most rational explanation for lolis that I've found.

[PItiful Boar]

Hiroki Azuma, Database Animals

 

 

The modern human was a narrative animal. People were able to satisfy their thirst for “the meaning of life” peculiar to humanity through a likewise peculiarly human means: sociality.

 

In other words,they were able to connect small narratives with a grand narrative analogically. However, the postmodern human cannot satisfy a thirst for “meaning” through sociality, but rather satisfies it in solitude by reducing it to animalistic needs. There is no longer any connection between small narratives and grand nonnarrative; the world drifts about materially, without giving meaning to lives. The reduction of meaning to animality, the meaninglessness of humanity, and the dissociated coexistence of the animality at the level of simulacra and the humanity at the level of database—in the language of contemporary criticism, these are my current answers to the second question of this book: After the forfeiture of the competition of transcendence in post modernity, what will become of the humanity of human beings?

[Aurora]

"It’s all messy:
The hair.
The bed.
The words.
The heart.
Life…"

―William Leal.

Edited by Aurora, 27 October 2016 - 06:01 AM.

[PervySageChuck]

"Good sex is messy. Great sex is REALLY messy!"

 

Lazarus Long

[Vicmonananya]

"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel."

-Horace Walpole

[Hoet]

Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

[PervySageChuck]

"Despite any scientific evidence to support it, the idea that there is an afterlife has filled with gold the pockets and coffers of every religious leader throughout all of mankind's existence on this planet."

-PervySageChuck

Edited by PervySageChuck, 25 November 2016 - 05:54 AM.

[Hoet]

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops
~ Stephen Jay Gould

[PItiful Boar]

Very true quote, think there is a Malcolm Gladwell book called outliers that addressed the above

 

 

From If you Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski

 

She hands me her last razor blade, tells me it is the one she used to cut her arm and her last lines of cocaine five nights before. Shes had it it with her ever since, shares that tonight will be the hardest night and she shouldn't have it. I hold it carefully, thank her, and know instantly that this moment, this gift, will stay with me.... As we arrive at the treatment center, she finishes: "The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope."

 

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It's like when you max your sun s.link and you get a memento 

[Aurora]

"The size of a mass is not proportional to its volume

That little girl as small as a violet
That little girl that flutters like a flower petal
Pulls me with a mass greater than the Earth
In a moment, I
Like Newton’s apple
Mercilessly rolled and fell on her
With a thud, with a thud thud
My heart
From the sky to the ground
Continued to swing dizzyingly like a pendulum
It was first love"

— Kim In-yook, “The Physics of Love”
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[Aurius]

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog.
I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations.
Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands.
Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog."

 

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Edited by Aurius, 21 December 2016 - 03:41 AM.

[PItiful Boar]

there's a quote (actually a reference to a poem) in the book/movie "Fault in our stars" - 13 ways of looking at a blackbird: it sounds kinda deep but i dunno what it means?

 

 

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Edited by Feisty Bit Moar, 21 December 2016 - 05:15 PM.

[ClearMadness]

"Who would be born must first destroy a world." - Hermann Hesse

[PervySageChuck]

"When the ladies see the beast I got between my thighs,
they say, "Perhaps today is a good day to die!"

 

From "Worf's Revenge" by Aurelio Voltaire

[svines85]

"Leia follows me like a vague smell."

 

Carrie Fisher October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016 R.I.P.

 

[Hoet]

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

~Steven Wright

Edited by Hoet, 08 January 2017 - 05:04 PM.

[calisto]

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

 

 

Zygmunt Bauman

Edited by calisto, 16 January 2017 - 01:30 PM.