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The trouble with being born

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The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.
Dean Cornwell
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt.

— John Muir
Forwarded from alcoholic.exe
Italian Navy, destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne and tall ship Amerigo Vespucci.
Uma Thurman, c. 1990
“What man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases and stops showing what he can do. Talent is finery, and finery is a hiding place.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §130 (edited).
“Summer with Monika” dir. Ingmar Bergman (1953) screening on a side of a barn in Iowa, USA.
Pontifical Swiss Guard
Osiris attends to a soul leaving the body of the deceased. 
Who returns us to ourselves, when we most struggle to gain distance?