One Encounters So Few
I suspect the reason one encounters so few beautiful women who are intelligent — and so few beautiful men, though there are far fewer beautiful men in the world than beautiful women — is that the beautiful never turn inward (the real meaning of introversion) because the world does not present them with barriers. Or [...]
Perennial Vivification
No creo que haya síntoma más sustancial de amor y odio que este último. Amar una cosa es estar empeñando en que exista; no admitir, en lo que depende de uno, la posibilidad de un universo donde aquel objecto esté ausente. Pero nótese que esto viene a ser lo mismo que estarle continuamente dando vida, [...]
Un Eterno Insatisfecho
El amor, en cambio, es un eterno insatisfecho.1 José Ortega y Gasset : Estudios Sobre El Amor : Facciones del Amor↩
Lest One’s Spirit Evaporate
A human spirit is a glass filled by diverse and intense experiences. If one does not begin to fill it in one’s adolescence, the little starting material one is born with evaporates entirely by one’s mid-twenties. Full human beings — this is what matters most in the world!
Starcrossed
When starcrossed becomes doublecrossed…
Providence
Neither those who have already succeeded nor those who will yet succeed believe in providence. For it is the presence of belief in a benevolent guiding-hand outside of ourselves that divides the hope that sustains us from the hope that both petrifies and putrifies our spirits.
Meaning Well, Doing Well
We overesteem meaning well and underesteem doing well.
Virtue
Virtue is not a little boy’s toy-soldier, only acquired to be shown off braggartly.
I Have To Get On With My Life
The soul that never bleeds is as ill as the body that always does.
Monachetti
You said there would not be any reason to fear this world, but you’re the reason — but you’re the reason I feel broken, branded and burning with doubt.1 Further Seems Forever : The Moon Is Down : Monachetti↩