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The trouble with being born

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Gold mourning ring inscribed "Let Love Aibide till Death Divide", England, 17th century
Psychology is the hero’s tomb.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley
“Hearing something new is embarrassing and difficult for the ear. Foreign music we do not hear well, but with another language we try involuntarily to form the sounds we hear into words that sound more familiar and more like home to us.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §192 (edited excerpt).
A Chinese PLA horseman riding towards a nuclear explosion whilst aiming a Kalashnikov during a Nuclear weapons test in Lop Nur, China, 1964.
“What we experience in dreams belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced in actuality.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §193 (edited excerpt).
Palestinian fighters on a street in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War - 1975
IRA
What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.