We console ourselves with the flesh
for all the iniquities in the world.
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
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Nice one.
And I’m reminded of her also writing:
We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Tuns out she credited the Talmud in the same breath, and that many others had also said as much:
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Yes. The promise of endings there.
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It’s just peer pressure. From dead people.
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Well put, my very dear.
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Hunger is the best sauce in all the world.
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Sartre strikes again:
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(I hope that’s what the Arabic actually says.)
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Google translate says “tasted” rather than “endured”, but seems accurate enough.
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The 2CV is the work of a designer who has kissed the lash of austerity with almost masochistic fervour.
– Reviewer for The Autocar, 1948
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(Is it bad that I so wanted to reply: “If you know what I mean”?)
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Sometimes it’s the other way round.
Also good.
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