March 2012
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Albert Einstein, as a youth, would have likely received an ADHD diagnosis, and maybe an ODD one as well. Albert didn’t pay attention to his teachers, failed his college entrance examinations twice, and had difficulty holding jobs. However, Einstein biographer Ronald Clark (Einstein: The Life and Times) asserts that Albert’s problems did not stem from attention deficits but rather from his hatred...
flipper, ha ha ha
February 2012
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No one will ever know really how beautiful you are because they will never see you making love because beautiful as you are you will never be a movie star because beautiful as you are you hide so much of what you are which of course is part of what you are the hidden and the hiding and I will try to love you so long and so well we will remain forever only for each other and no one will know...
Sappho, 56 | Trans. Anne Carson
οὐδ᾽ ἴαν δοκίμωμι προσίδοισαν φάοσ ὰλίω
ἔσσεσθαι σοφίαν πάρθενον εἰσ οὐδένα πω χρόνον
τεαύταν
not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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Albert Camus
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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-Audre Lorde
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