"Myth is the nothing that is all."

-- Fernando Pessoa

“As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.”
“I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.”

Source : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
“Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.”
“A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.”
“So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.”
“if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.”
“What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States ...”
“Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”

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