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mistakes & musings
My chaotic thoughts sprinkled with the occasional prose, creative nonfiction and inspirational imagery.
1146 He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via baileyreed19)
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48 I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people’s minds and souls.
- Sylvia Plath (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Don’t be afraid.” That’s what Ruby Bridges’s mother told her on November 4, 1960. Little Ruby listened carefully to the advice. Soon, four United States federal court marshals, or officers, arrived at the Bridges family home in New Orleans, La., to drive the first grader to William Frantz Public School. A screaming mob was waiting. People stood near the building shouting. Ruby held her head high. With the marshals surrounding her, the 6-year-old walked into the school and into history
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7 To look at the river made of time and water
And remember that time is another river,
To know that we are lost like the river
And that faces dissolve like water.
-Jorge Luis Borges, “Ars Poetica”
8 To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
- “The Immortal” (via contextfreeborges)
10 Being Spontaneously Combusted: Jorge Luis Borges
What can I hold you with?
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the
moon of the jagged suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked
long and long at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts
that living men have honoured in bronze:
my father’s…
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