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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
Louise Glück
For writers it is always said that the first twenty years contain the whole of experience - the rest is observation - but I think this is equally true of us all.
Graham Greene
The superficial view of life is by far the most profound.
G.K. Chesterton? (It sounds like him - otherwise it's by me.)
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Wordworth
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.
Eric Berne
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Wordworth
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.
Eric Berne
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
ReplyDelete― Coco Chanel
Ha ha. So true. How few even try.
ReplyDeleteSmart woman. Love her:
ReplyDelete“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
― Coco Chanel
My ex used to say "I'm too poor to wear cheap stuff."
Bonus:
ReplyDeleteA woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.”
― Coco Chanel
She said zest is the secret of beauty.
ReplyDeleteno, dior
Deletethe P.T. Barnum of fashion (time magazine)
the Elvis of haute couture (nytimes)
that's probably what he liked in his companions...
last was Jacques Benita, a Moroccan singer three decades his junior, a young man with a daddy complex but,
i can only guess, full of zest
Thank you for the correction. I don't remember very accurately who Chanel or Dior were but can google.
DeleteHere's some poetry on the theme in your adoptive country's language:
ReplyDeleteAstăzi chiar de m-aș întoarce, a-nțelege n-o mai pot.
Unde ești copilărie cu pădurea ta cu tot?
Eminescu is so good!
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