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(Jan 9, 2025 08:23 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]"What is best in life?

To crush your enemies. To see them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women."

Conan the Barbarian

LOL Loved that movie!

“No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

As I left Geometry class for the last time, proud of myself for making top grade, little did I know I'd never touch a compass or a protractor ever again in my life.

"The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say." —Gregory Maguire

When the seeker is sought.

"There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked." ~Anton Chekhov

“Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through your own sensorium. Otherwise it would just labor in the dark. Like your liver. For historical reasons it's loath to speak to you. It prefers drama, metaphor, pictures. But it understands you very well. And it has no other cause save yours.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

"Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much."
Gregory Maguire