The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Man alone is born crying,
lives complaining,
and dies disappointed.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
https:// soundcloud.com/tfm-6/layout-whipped-cream-handcuffs-ice?in=zalmoxis42/sets/will
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Varied Types (1903)
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 4 "Speculation of the House Agent"
samus
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Between falsehood and useless truth
there is little difference. As gold which
he cannot spend will make no man rich,
so knowledge which cannot apply will
make no man wise.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
yep
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
https:// soundcloud.com/peps-show-boys/164-peps-show-boys-selection-by-essentia-guest-dj-christian-seance
@agnar
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
https:// soundcloud.com/highbrow-lowstache/the-notorious-b-i-g-machine
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
https:// soundcloud.com/kion15/kion-bing-crosby-ive-got-a-pocketful-of-dreams
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
https:// soundcloud.com/remi-cecil/blackjack
almost
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
https:// soundcloud.com/blacktigersexmachine/religion