Beauty is hard, sharp, vicious. It carves away anything and everything that it believes threatens to make it grotesque. It does not care if what it eradicates is in fact helping it thrive or grow or remain nourished or protected. All beauty
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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― شرق بهشت
― شرق بهشت
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
― The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
― The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
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