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Genius is the superior power of seeing.

Aporia: puzzlement or impasse in philosophy.

Or an irresolvable internal contradiction. Eg. A cretan saying all cretans are liars.

Ineffable (adj.)

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough

#The Lover's Dictionary

Joy may not be sparked if one lacks some endor-flint.

When the gods wish to punish us, they grant our wishes.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me does.

#A ladder to the sky

When the gods wish to punish us, they grant our wishes.

Pygmalion effect: or Rosenthal's effect. It is where others expectations of you can affect your performance. In other words, it is a form of self fulfilling prophecy.

Pygmalion comes about from the greek legend where the sculptor pygmalion fell in love with his statue and he prayed to Aphrodite to meet the women who would be the living likeness of his ivory girl. His statue came to life and he married the woman of his creation.

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“You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field – but they’re all we have.”

— Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil (via quotespile)

The Internet is the perfect distillation of American capitalist ethos, a flood of seductive choices with no really effective engines for choosing.

#dfw

There are costs to living an authentic life, but the costs of not living one are far greater.

Words give me openings to break through the darkness in my heart.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are still the same person before and after we loved, we haven't loved enough. #fortyrulesoflove

Intellect ties people up in knots and risks nothing. Love dissolves all tangles and risks everything.

#Thefortyrulesoflove

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“No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly… We all do.”

— Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

And we are all fighting to survive a world where I miss you doesn't mean I'm coming back and I love you doesn't mean I'll stay.

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