Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 4, 2021 07:11 AM by Magical Realist.)

“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
― Amy Tan

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 5, 2021 07:24 PM by Magical Realist.)

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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**Magical Realist** · May 6, 2021 07:35 AM

“You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 6, 2021 11:22 PM by Magical Realist.)

“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.”
― Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

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**Magical Realist** · May 7, 2021 07:36 PM

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 8, 2021 07:44 AM by Magical Realist.)

“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”
― Gilda Radner

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 10, 2021 07:04 PM by Magical Realist.)

“This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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**Magical Realist** · May 11, 2021 06:44 PM

“Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

**Magical Realist** · May 12, 2021 12:13 AM

“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”
― David Bowie

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: May 12, 2021 09:48 PM by Magical Realist.)

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
~ Rachel Carson