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Burning the old year
Naomi Shihab Nye
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Famous
Naomi Shihab Nye
The river is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.
The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.
The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
HOLLY
Where are we?
MAX
In a memory—which exists inside a world of a thousand memories. I know it might look nice, but it's not. This place, this world... it's a prison.
Stranger Things, S05E04
ELIZABETH
I tell myself it was like a fever dream, you know? And maybe the fever finally broke. And it all sounds sane and sensible. But you know something? If he called me right now, right this very second, I'd drop everything in my life and drive three hours, drive thirty hours just to spend one more night with him. What's the matter with me, Larry?
LARRY
Why would you drive thirty hours to see someone who treated you like that?
ELIZABETH
Because I'm in love with him?
LARRY
You are?
ELIZABETH
It's illogical. Obsessional. Pathetic.
Blue Moon, 2025
In the words of Maya Angelou, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Carrington in All's Fair, S01E06
Freud famously wrote that the aim of all life is death. Thanatos, some call it. The death instinct. The drive towards self-destruction. It lives in all of us, he said. A need to court danger. Put ourselves directly in harm's way. Sometimes a whisper, sometimes a cry. An invisible current. A force beyond our control.
- Aggie in The Beast in Me, S01E04
A obra de arte faz parte do real e é destino, realização, salvação e vida.
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| Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 1969 |
As Syme had done earlier, Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-colored gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern. He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life.
- George Orwell (1984) cited in Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, 2025
O sofrimento só é insuportável quando ninguém cuida.
- Cicely Saunders por Daniel Martins de Barros no Sem Censura
Essa é a coisa triste, João — quando você vai ficando velho, não é que você acumula rugas, é que você perde coisas, você perde o futuro no seu rosto.
- Gregorio Duvivier em Não Importa
He says, look, I'm not a perfect man. I have the imperfections of a good man. But that doesn't mean that I'm deserving of the existential catastrophe that has visited me. It isn't a mere cause and effect consequence. There's an arbitrariness about it.
- Jordan B. Peterson about Job
The thing that's meaningful and the thing that we cry out for, as agnostics or atheists, is what Albert Camus referred to, as you know, the Absurd. We call out for meaning from a universe that's indifferent to us. As the philosopher Michael Hauskeller tells us, this version of the Absurd threatens us to rob us of our sanity. Here be lions and dragons. Here be cold and dark and empitness. And that's uncomfortable, right?
I didn't picture shrinking, you know? Everything was all about being seen, taking up space. I never pictured being like this.
- Doug in All's Fair, S01E02
You know what I didn't realize at the time? That back then, those moments, those were the happiest I was ever gonna be. That was my happiness. I missed it.
- Jonathan in Retake, 2016
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