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"I'm reading a practical soap opera, and I've never been more entertained in my life." — Nov 28, 2021 10:38AM
"I'm reading a practical soap opera, and I've never been more entertained in my life." — Nov 28, 2021 10:38AM
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“[written 2,600 years ago]
Another Sama
After twenty-five years on the Path,
I'd experienced almost everything--
except peace.
When I was young,
my mother told me
that I would find true happiness
only in marriage.
Remembering her words all those years
later,
something in me began to tremble.
I gave myself to the trembling--
and it showed me
all the pain
this little heart
had ever known.
And how countless lives of searching
had brought me
at last
to the present moment,
which I happily married.
Can you imagine?
We've been living together
ever since,
without
a single
argument.”
― The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
Another Sama
After twenty-five years on the Path,
I'd experienced almost everything--
except peace.
When I was young,
my mother told me
that I would find true happiness
only in marriage.
Remembering her words all those years
later,
something in me began to tremble.
I gave myself to the trembling--
and it showed me
all the pain
this little heart
had ever known.
And how countless lives of searching
had brought me
at last
to the present moment,
which I happily married.
Can you imagine?
We've been living together
ever since,
without
a single
argument.”
― The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
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