I live in expectation of an idea; I foresee it, close in upon it, get a grip, but it escapes me, does not yet belong to me. How can I express it?
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Secure some solitude; add a routine.
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Tadpoles, tapenade, tequila, testicle, tinfoil, tiramisu, tomatoes, torpedoes, tuxedos, turbines, Twinkies, and Typhoid.
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About 10% of our happiness is due to our circumstances. Our age, race, gender, personal history, and wealth, only make up about one-tenth of our happiness.
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All truths are against us, but we go on living because we accept them in themselves, because we refuse to draw the consequences.
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I’m done reading news. They are all bad and depressing and make the world complain and react ceaselessly.
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Deprived of life, a dead person is then a corpse, cadaver, a body, a set of remains, and finally a skeleton.
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Oxytocin is a hormone that, among many things, affects your empathy levels. The less oxytocin, the more mean, aggressive, and evil you become. Stress lowers your oxytocin levels. Maybe that’s why everyone is so mean these days.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand.
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A love destroyed.
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I always liked musical boxes with swirling ballerinas. They are so absorbingly hypnotic.
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Great Expectations was first published as ongoing weeklies in Dickens’ magazine, All the Year Round. To engage the readers, and bring in new ones, Dickens had to write each week a part of the story that was absorbing, captivating, and full of drama. I think that’s why the novel feels like a speeding race.
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After you have stopped arguing with someone, the battle may still be raging within your own body. It can do so for hours, altering your hormone levels and weakening your immune system to the point where illness could gain a foothold.
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How to deal with bullies: know what kind you are dealing with; work your way around them; show minimum reaction to them; do not make jokes at your own expense to prove anything to them; reflect an insult back to them; report them to an authority figure; help others; RUN! (Apply also to ex espouses).
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In German, gift means poison.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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A picturesque vision.
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“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache” ~Mae West.
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Eclipse means a fall into obscurity or disuse. A decline. A disgraceful or humiliating end; a downfall: To obscure or diminish in importance, fame, or reputation.
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Sometimes we don’t know what we want, and sometimes we don’t don’t how to say what we want. During those times it’s better to stick to dreaming.
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Unhappy. Ashamed.
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Pretty dark times ahead for young Pip, once again.
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The first recorded usage of the word “QUEER” used as a derogatory term for effeminate gay people was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas in the late 19th C.
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Legally bound to a job you don’t like: a black curtain falls in front of you.
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Napoleon III, a.k.a Rantipole, “the universal disturber of the word”.
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ER.
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In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area.
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Happy birthday Lizbet.
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⬅HOUT.
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One of Betye Saar’s better-known and controversial pieces is that entitled “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.” It is a “mammy” doll carrying a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other, and placed in front of the Aunt Jemima’s syrup labels.
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World, hold on, instead of messing with our future
Tell me no more lies
World, hold on, one day you will have to answer
To the children of the sky.
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In 1958 Dickens separates from his wife after 22 years of marriage. He was 46. She gave him 10 children. In 1960 Great Expectations gets published.
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The song Old Clenn mentioned in this page comes from the parade on St. Clement’s Day, blacksmiths’ patron saint, November 23rd.
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“If they made me God, I would immediately resign” ~E. M. Ciordan.
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Myrmidons are literally ant people, from the myth in which Aeacus begs his father, Zeus, to populate his plague-stricken island by transforming its ants into men.
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The reviews of Great Expectations when if was first published were scathing.
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A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat or help you at the automat.
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Herbert Pocket and Pip fight bareknuckled, as per the fighting rules of the Marquess of Queensberry.
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Laughing, Lucky Four Leaved Clover
Is a most a atrocious rover;
Doesn’t stay long in one place
Goes and never leaves trace.
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According to Carl Jung, the main purpose of our existence is to individuate, to understand that we are completely distinct from other individuals.
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Birthdays are your own personal New Year’s Day, when we look toward the coming year. In astrological language this is known as a Solar Return: the precise moment that the Sun returns to its exact position in your birth chart. The Solar Return reading can be used as a way of predicting what parts of your life will be prominent in the coming year (from birthday to birthday).
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Today is a good day to ask for abundance in all relations.
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One leg shorter than the other.
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THE CAKE!!!
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“Love’s Hate behind a white veil.” ~Miss Havisham
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Miss Havisham has not washed, cleaned or had a change of clothes since
the wedding day,
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“I’ll never cry for you again.” ~False statement.
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The Pockets: Miss Havisham’s relatives.
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“Toadies and humbugs”=flatterers and insincere.
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Philophobia is defined as the abnormal, persistent and unwarranted fear of falling in love. This affects the quality of life and pushes a person away from commitment. It also triggers various symptoms that may incorporate sweating, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, feelings of dread, nausea and feeling of restlessness. The worst aspect of fear of being in love and falling in love is that it keeps a person in solitude.
