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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

— Kahlil Gibran
4d ago

We shall make mistakes; and I venture to affirm that it is better to make every possible mistake, and to correct them all, than to be paralyzed by the fear of making any.

1mo ago

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so. It is an easy task, because people who are intellectually lazy are convinced that this miserable terror is "the truth", that this terror is knowledge of the "extra-mental" world. This is an easy way out, resulting in a banal explanation of the world as terrifying.

3mo ago
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The Strange Saga of Faces of Death

Kids who'd seen it—or, even better, whose older siblings had—spoke in whispers about its contents, less because they were afraid of being overheard by an adult than because it felt as if even putting its terrible images into words might open the door to some unimaginable evil.

3mo ago

The terror of the unfamiliar is the root of all superstition; yet the familiar itself is but the accumulated strangeness of yesterday.

4mo ago

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