Some will sell their dreams for small desires
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
A. Schopenhauer
“The void exists for as long as you are not falling into...
The second life I never lived, the flawless life
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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We should live two lives. One is not enough.
The first one should...
Eros is a socially acceptable form of insanity
“ Love is like a socially acceptable form of insanity.”
HER, Spike Jonze
“Love, unbeatable at battle”
Antigone, Sophocles
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I look at this photo taken by Niki Boon and...
Birds born in a cage don’t know how to fly
An anthropologist (let us call her Jane) visited an African tribe (let us call it Narash).
The Narash had been in touch with civilization –...
The loneliness of the wise man
The wise man, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, is the only surviving species of its genus. This is somewhat unusual.
The animals of most genera have...
Homo Sarcophilus
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the largest carnivorous marsupial – after the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in 1936.
It’s not bigger than a small dog,...