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In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond previous, halting, beginning to show the slow and infinitesimal accreations of decay in the clocking away of life in a mechanism encoded at the moment of conception, withering, shunted aside by time's next orgasmic thrust, and all to the beating of some galactic heart, to voices, a madman's mutterings from a snare in the web of the world.


William Gay


#poetic #southern-gothic #home

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes


Benny Bellamacina


#famous-quotes #humor #humour #life #love

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.


Joseph Addison


#love #pain #philosophical #equality

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully


Isobelle Carmody


#philosophical #inspirational

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.


Ann Coulter


#age #appropriately #because #conservative #either

The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.


G.K. Chesterton


#joy #philosophical

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.


Alfred North Whitehead


#best #done #end #philosophic #philosophy

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.


Alfred North Whitehead


#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.


E. O. Wilson


#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#could #entirely #good #jokes #philosophical