"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
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The corollary of this proverb, as I understand it, is that each individuality, once it has blossomed, should be put at the service of the collective human chain, for the sake of Nature as the cosmic factor of our very lives. That is, the intellectual and mental ability to realize that a pause in economic growth is necessary, that a material and economic “regression” (instead of progress) is desirable to enable to regeneration of the forces of Nature. Whereas we, so-called modern humans, still see phases of recessions and depressions as evil. It is not, it is a chance to renew things, to make them better. One must psychologically benevolent or friendly (“bienveillant” in French…) to be able to assume this reality. Thanks for this rich proverb!
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And thanks to you for the superbly rich response and comment. ❤
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I am actually preparing a small article on this proverb for my site, including a direct link to your wonderful blog. Take care! Beausex Legrand.
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