Being – Page 7 – Everything

Being

Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham

Jul 212022
 

Grievances are often not merely nursed but cherished, and a great many people, deprived of theirs, would be nothing at all.

Jul 052022
 

We are apt to forget, though history at intervals reminds us, how far hypocrisy is to be preferred to sincere, unaffected villainy.

Jun 242022
 

You can star in the movie of your life, or live it.

Jun 222022
 

Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.

Jun 202022
 

A quest for the exotic is always rooted in contempt for the familiar.

Jun 102022
 

If luck did not exist, it would be necessary for men, to live together in society, to invent it.

May 272022
 

The fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.

May 182022
 

If the rich and accomplished were swine, they would be envied less. As it is, they are envied for being rich, accomplished, and not swine.

May 122022
 

One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.