"The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not."

-- Franz Kafka

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“The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.”
“Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening”
“Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.”
“Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.”
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.”
“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.65, A&C Black
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.10, Vintage
“I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.”

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