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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
May 2010
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If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it. Trees are happy and animals are happy and birds are happy. The whole existence is happy, except man. Being miserable, man becomes very special, extraordinary.
Misery makes you capable of attracting people’s attention. Whenever you are miserable...
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In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes with...
By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY
MEXICO CITY — Can’t afford to pay your income taxes? Paint a picture instead.
That’s the deal Mexico has offered to artists since 1957, quietly amassing a modern art collection that would make most museum curators swoon. As the 2009 tax deadline approaches, tax collectors are getting ready to receive a whole new crop of masterworks.
“It’s really an amazing...
April 2010
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The Art of Not Being Offended
In order to truly be a master of this art, one must be able to see that every statement, action and reaction of another human being is the sum result of their total life experience to date. In other words, the majority of people in our world say and do what they do from their own set of fears, conclusions, defenses and attempts to survive. Most of it, even when aimed directly at us, has nothing...
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March 2010
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Oh so many beautiful things... →
February 2010
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This is the most beautiful thing.
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December 2009
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Eddie Izzard: I think a lot of people in Europe have sort of moved away from God. We had two world wars and a lot of death, and he didn’t come down and flick Hitler’s head off at any moment—which you think he would have. Wossy: Well, neither did Buddha, neither did any of the other guys. Eddie: Buddha’s not a god though. Wossy: Is he not? Eddie: No. Wossy: What’s Buddha? Eddie: Buddha’s just a...
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Fireflies
And these are my vices: impatience, bad temper, wine, the more than occasional cigarette, an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed, a hunger that isn’t hunger but something like fear, a staunching of dread and a taste for bitter gossip of those who’ve wronged me—for bitterness— and flirting with strangers and saying sweetheart to children whose names I don’t even know and driving too fast and...
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Letter From a Contract Worker
I wanted to write you a letter my love, a letter that would tell of this desire to see you of this fear of losing you of this more than benevolence that I feel of this indefinable ill that pursues me of this yearning to which i live in total surrender I wanted to write you a letter my love, a letter of intimate secrets a letter of memories of you of you of your lips as red as henna of your hair as...
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