Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe)
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Read between May 11 - May 18, 2025
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Sometimes, when your life is wheels within wheels, you can take a wrong step and get ground up in the slow churn of the gears. But, just like envy, disappointment and pain could be raw materials.
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“Never apologize for ambition. There’s no shame in wanting to rise above.”
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Yes, humanity had found the cure for death, but that just meant he had an eternity to get it wrong.
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If you had all the time in the world to learn whatever you wanted—and people now did—did knowledge lose its meaning? And if everything was now just for fun, was anything for serious?
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It’s the false artist who thinks they have all the answers.”
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Coming to a museum for answers was like asking a river to hold still for your reflection.
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Every great artist evolves in stages, and it is those very stages that make the creator who they are.