George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1947-03), “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” Polemic Magazine, No. 7
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Often there is a seeming truce between the humanist and the religious believer, but in fact their attitudes cannot be reconciled: one must choose between this world and the next. And the enormous majority of human beings, if they understood the issue, would choose this world. They do make that…
You know that feeling of exhaustion where the feeling exhausted is exhausting in itself…?
Band of Horses - Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFXAkB7hps
If I am lost it’s only for a little while...
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Every morning I wake up and reach for my phone. I read the news headlines, and I wish I could go back to sleep.
I wish I could sleep forever.
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