“Women have minds and souls as well as just hearts, and they’ve got ambition and talent as well as just beauty. And I’m sick of people saying love is all a woman is fit for.”

- Little Women

There was intermittent danger from predators, parasites, and germs, but our ancestors would have become as accustomed to coping with those dangers as we are to crossing roads. Nature was not red in tooth and claw. Usually, it was really boring. Predators would have tended to kill the very young, the very ill, the very old, and the very foolish. Most illnesses would have been due to poor condition brought on by starvation or injury. Our ancestors did not spend all their time worrying about survival problems. They were among the longest-lived species on the planet, which implies that their daily risk of death was minuscule. Like most great apes, they probably spent their time worrying about social and sexual problems.
Our ancestors probably did not have to work more than twenty or thirty hours a week to gather enough food to live. They did not have weekends or paid vacation time, but they probably had much more leisure time than we do.


- The mating mind, by Geoffrey Miller

نَديمي النجمُ طولَ لَيلي
حتى إذا غَارَتِ النّجوم

أسلَمَني الصُّبحُ للبلايا
فلا حبيبٌ و لا نَديم

تلكَ سجايا مِن الليالي
للبؤس ما يخلق النعيم

- أبو فراس الحمداني

يَرعىٰ النُجومَ وما يَنفَكُّ في فِكَرٍ
تنفي الرُقادَ وتُدني الهَمَّ والسّهدا

- أبو فراس الحمداني

يرعى النجوم: كناية عن الأرق والسهاد

"Therefore, we have so much stubbornness deplora urged ours, if it is not the order of nature?" That is evil before it comes about, imagining that we are free and others have a more peaceful path, taught by the mishaps these are common. So in addition to our doors, funerals never think of death; so many deaths are untimely, the gown of us for our own infants, the mind of the army, and succeed to their father; so many of the rich, with sudden poverty, before our eyes with the wealth of just as much, and in a slippery place, too, it never occurs to us that our of his sermon. It is therefore more prone to collapse the like; which had long before provided with those things, fall less violently. Do you know what you all stand exposed to blows and other weapons quivered around you! For instance, the difficult, the ascent of the wall of any man or semermis not visit the place and take possession of the enemy, much more, expect to be wounded in the stones, arrows and the javelins, and those things that whirl above him, balanced with the body of your own person. Often as a person on the side of or behind you, cry out: "I will not be forgotten by me, for good fortune, nor me confident and heedless. I know what you are planning; it is true you struck someone else, but me, that aimed at me." Has anyone looked at the destruction of their property? Who of us ever from exile, and, upon want, ventured to think of the mourning was past? Who, if urged to reflect as an unlucky omen it will reject the heads of in-timely advice or leave it orders? "We thought it would." Do you think there will be, as you know could be that many people see that? That good thing which the verse and the worthiness of those who do not come from the stage: Whatever can happen to all!"

- من رسالة سينيكا الى مارسيا لتعزيتها بوفاة ابنها

There were, however, definite advantages to studying invertebrate zoology. For starters, unlike in psychology, you could eat your subjects. The lobsters—fresh from the sea and delicious—were especially popular. We cooked them in beakers over Bunsen burners until one of our lecturers, remarking that “It has not gone unnoticed that some of your subjects seem to be letting themselves out of their tanks at night”

- An unquiet mind, by Kay R. Jamison

"Mary Magdalene as a hermit" by Francesco Hayez (Detail)

كمية التفاصيل وال craftsmanship ....
it's just stunning

هاي عود ليش هلكد كيوت؟

https://youtu.be/DNjX947jwo4
One of the saddest things I've ever read

حكفر بلanterograde amnesia هلكد ما قريتها بلliterature والpop culture