"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."

-- Calvin Trillin

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“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”

Source : The Human Province "1943" (1978) (translation by Joachim Neugroschel)
“Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation”
“No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.”
“Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.”
“I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.”
“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”

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