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WIST QuotationsA quotation from Cesare Pavese
I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse.[Ho fatto molti stupidi errori, se ne fanno nella vita. I veri acciacchi dell’età sono i rimorsi.]
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian writer. essayist, literary critic
The Moon and the Bonfire [La Luna e i Falò], ch. 8 [The Cavaliere] (1950) [tr. Sinclair (1952)]
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Pavese, Cesare - The Moon and the Bonfire [La Luna e i Falò], ch. 8 [The Cavaliere] (1950) [tr. Sinclair (1952)] | WIST Quotations
I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse. [Ho fatto molti stupidi errori, se ne fanno nella vita. I veri acciacchi dell’età sono i rimorsi.] (Source (Italian))
The ascent of the privileged, not only in the Lager [prison camp] but in all human coexistence, is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end. Where there exists power exercised by the few or by only one against the many, privilege is born and proliferates, even against the will of the power itself; but on the other hand it is normal for power to tolerate and encourage it.
Primo Levi (1919-1987) Italian Jewish chemist and writer
The Drowned and the Saved, ch. 2 “The Grey Zone” (1986) [tr. Rosenthal (1888)]
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Levi, Primo - The Drowned and the Saved, ch. 2 "The Grey Zone" (1986) [tr. Rosenthal (1888)] | WIST Quotations
The ascent of the privileged, not only in the Lager [prison camp] but in all human coexistence, is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this…
PhilosophicsI've got mixed emotions about Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks on anti-Enlightenment grounds.
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All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot —
Love itself would, did they not.
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot —
Love itself would, did they not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Poem (1820), “Death,” st. 4, Posthumous Poems (1824)
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PepperberryThe crisis arrives when the accumulated evidence becomes impossible to ignore:
“I got what I was chasing, and it did not become what I needed.”
That moment feels like collapse.
But it may also be the first accurate perception in years.
The question is not only:
“What should I do next?”
It is:
“What kind of thing did I think I was looking for?”
Essay 👇
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Carmelite QuotesQuote of the day, 19 May: Père Jacques
God is pure act, as the philosophers say; that is, he is the total realization of all possibility. We are not pure act; we have not realized all possibilities of being that are in us. Our being evolves as our heart intensifies its affections and perfects them. Our body grows and then declines. God himself is pure actuality, pure act. Nothing in him is in the state of possibility, passing from nonexistence to existence. All is infinite existence in him.
The human person, on the contrary, far from being this totality of realization, is a creature of infirmity and dependence. Remember what I was saying to you regarding creation? Nothing exists that cannot be annihilated instantly if the creative action ceases to operate. It is this way because we are not self-existent beings, as the words of Our Lord to Saint Catherine of Siena indicated: “You are she who is not.”
This is the foundation of our being. We are not; we have only a borrowed being, unceasingly renewed by God. The Virgin Mary shares this condition of creaturehood with us. By herself, she was not; she was totally dependent, as we are totally dependent.
Père Jacques of Jesus, o.c.d.
Virginity in God and in Mary
Retreat for the Carmel of Pontoise, Conference Six
Wednesday evening, 8 September 1943
French, ca. 1300–1310
Limestone, traces of paint
Metropolitan Museum of Art / Open Access
Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: a retreat with Père Jacques, Murphy, F (trans. & ed.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.
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For me, it is hard to see the plan or design in earthquakes and pestilences. It is somewhat difficult to discern the design or the benevolence in so making the world that billions of animals live only on the agonies of others. The justice of God is not visible to me in the history of this world. When I think of the suffering and death, of the poverty and crime, of the cruelty and malice, of the heartlessness of this “design” and “plan,” where beak and claw and tooth tear and rend the quivering flesh of weakness and despair, I cannot convince myself that it is the result of infinite wisdom, benevolence, and justice.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300
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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Essay (1881-11) "The Christian Religion," "Part 2" North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300 | WIST Quotations
For me, it is hard to see the plan or design in earthquakes and pestilences. It is somewhat difficult to discern the design or the benevolence in so making the world that billions of animals live only on the agonies of others. The justice of God is not visible to…
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roodBeing an imperfect human you have to be exposed to being the person with the worst mental health to someone somewhere. No human escapes that shortcoming.
It's the backhand of all your tradeoffs, decisions, preferences, and obsessions.