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Wisdom cannot be communicated, but it can be distilled.

Message Archive About Robi Writ.es

Will I be something?
Am I something?

And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.

- Anis Mojgani

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(via cocoa-butter-kisses-19)

"What’s the difference between a pickpocket and peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches."

- Redd Foxx, Laff of the Party

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy
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"He was right! It is vanity it is pride! It is the hubris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us.–All the truly sacred names of God are blasphemous things to speak!"

- Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes

"A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time and again on a small stage. We are memories, strung on storylines - the tales we tell ourselves about ourselves, falling through our lives into tomorrow."

- Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

"Everything we see has already happened."

- Self

"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."

- Henri Frederic Amiel (via fyp-philosophy)

(via nathanielstuart)

"Personality is socially constructed, genetically constructed, linguistically constructed, constructed by upbringing. Where the postmoderns go wrong is in positing a nullity behind all that. It’s not a nullity, it’s something raw and frightening and bottomless."

- Jonathan Franzen

"(…) all creative culture is built on plagiarism, literary debt, appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise, thematic creation, ironic retake, parody, imitation, stylistic debt, pastiches, collages, and deliberate assemblages."

- Drew Christie in an op-ed for the New York Times.

And your way, is it really your way?

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What, moreover, can you call your own? The house you live in, the food you swallow, the clothes you wear — you neither built the house nor raised the food nor made the clothes.

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The same goes for your ideas. You moved into them ready-made.

- Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

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