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"Humans were so sure of themselves, so sure they had the world figured out and were lords of it all. And with their monkey numbers and their arrows, so often they were right." Jan 18, 2026 08:35PM

 
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what Aotearoa New Zealand English calls, delightfully, rainbow people, which Americans such as myself more prosaically call LGBTQIA+ identities. (The I stands for intersex, the A for aromantic or asexual, the + for other identities and ...more
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Woody Allen
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
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Plato
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Plato

Oscar Wilde
“Hearts are made to be broken.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

Baruch Spinoza
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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