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"One's self-image becomes a social fact through action, and its meaning can then no longer be tied to the intention or will of the agent alone. This is, of course, exactly why many people forever postpone action, never write that book, send off that manuscript, finish that dissertation."

Why people never write that book

Choice is negation. When you choose something, you're negating every other possibility, so you have to be at peace with that. You're not skateboarding if you're reading, you're not reading if you're sleeping, you're not taking a shower if you're walking. So every choice, it comes with something that exists for you but negates every other possibility. You cannot be everything at all times. So I'm very much at peace with that. Whatever your limited time and knowledge of this world is in your lifespan, that's it. That was your share. And then you live it. What happens happens, and then you're gone.

interview with Guillermo del Toro on NP
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[J]azz music is the energetic extension of an oral tradition that separates Black art from the rest of western art, in that it values knowing things by heart, remembering, and retelling in person, or riffing on a closed-notion, over paper documents and final says.

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In my meandering path toward a better adulthood, I kept reading books but stopped thinking the theories found therein were going to answer the question of how to live in the world. I’ve come instead to the inelegant belief that pretty much the most important thing you can do with your day is make dinner, for your family or friends if you have them or for yourself if you don’t. Do that, and the other stuff mostly falls into place.

Valerie Stivers

Literature is the original Internet– every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.

| Maria Popova

"El paisaje conforma la estructura del sentir." MERCÈ IBARZ, La tierra retirada, 2009.

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