Flavia
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Flavia
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
The loneliness of being misunderstood is acute, a sharp sting. The loneliness of choosing silence is chronic, a dull, heavy ache that settles in your bones.
The Shadowed Archive • The Exhaustion of Being Understood
The reason to avoid lying is that the brain is not type safe. Lying to others and lying to yourself are the same motion.
RomeoStevensx.combe a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness like meditation. believe in god. believe in yourself. war and art. spirit and profit. be an insatiable serial killer in work. be a golden retriever in life. do everything to the extreme. you should... See more
bluex.comI wonder if all jokes boil down to the same pattern that eventually gets layered and complexified by veteran comedians. A joke is made by creating a frame with an embedded assumption, and then using a punchline to break the frame and reveal an implied truth. There are two layers of subtext, the assumption (the undertone), and the post-punchline
... See more“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
I like jokes because they are an unserious way of saying serious things