Jim

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Jim’s Notes & Highlights

Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett

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“For the poor, birth is the primary disaster: owning a body that has to be fed and sheltered and looked after, along with the drive to reproduce, to continue. Everything else is kid stuff, including death.”

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Jim’s Quotes

“If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“[N]othing is uglier than supreme authority combined with a cruel nature.”
― Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire

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“I am not entitled to life without death. I embrace sacred life. I embrace sacred death. I embrace the growing and crumbling in between.”
― Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

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“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
― William Faulkner, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962

tags: life, making-your-mark, mementos, memories, notice, oblivion

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“We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.”
― Natsume Soseki

tags: egoism, independence, kokoro, self

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