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We shall not pretend that life is all beauty; we shall, as tragic poets always do, start with evil, and only then show that the noblest response to evil is not flight from it but the courage to face it.
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)

6d ago

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. The world is not in your books and maps; it is out there.

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge and the most intimate courage can possibly enable us to endure.

1mo ago

themarginalian.org

How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

An exploration is a traversal of the unknown, of landscapes you didn't even know existed, with all the courage and vulnerability and openness to experience that demands; its payoff is discovery — of unimagined wonders, of yourself in the face of the unimagined.

2mo ago

3quarksdaily.com

Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters

as an artist, as a lover, as a person who lived with extraordinary vulnerability, extraordinary courage, and the precocious awareness that the conversation between the two is the measure of a life.

2mo ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the necessity, or duty, of further evolution.

3mo ago

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