#oddproverbs — Public Fediverse posts
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If you enjoyed the toots going on this week under the #OddProverbs #HashtagGames tags, note that I post one of these every day under the hashtag #WaitLetMeStartOver, and you may enjoy following it (or me)!
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‘We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable #terror .
It is #fantasy , served out in large rations by the popular #arts , which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.’
— Susan Sontag
#art #philosophy #culture #media #existentialism #quotes #friday #oddproverbs #meditation #wisdom
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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a #medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask you one of four questions:
When did you stop #dancing ?…”
— Gabrielle Roth
#quotes #culture #oddproverbs #meditation #inspiration #wisdom #friday #life #stories #singing #silence
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'In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female...
The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating...
It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.
Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine…'
— Virginia Woolfe
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"The #truth is, a great #mind must be #androgynous ."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
— Cicero
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‘To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.'
The aim … should be to make works of art — and, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us.’
— Susan Sontag
#art #criticism #CreativeToots #creativity #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #quotes #oddproverbs #life #reading
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‘My desire to write is connected to my homosexuality.
I need the #identity as a weapon to match the weapon that #society has against me.
I am just becoming aware of how guilty I feel being #queer .’
— Susan Sontag
#women #womenshistorymonth #WomenLifeFreedom #LGBTQ #lgbt #quotes #oddproverbs #writing #WritingCommunity #books @bookstodon
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I began #writing at age 6 or 7, it felt like I was joining an army of #Saints .
It didn’t feel like I was expressing myself, but taking part of a noble activity.
— Susan Sontag , #writer
https://www.artsandopinion.com/2009_v8_n5/labadidi-sontag.htm
#film #movies #documentary #oddproverbs #books #bookstodon #reading #literature #friday #WritingCommunity #quotes #ThrowbackThursday #inspiration #women #womenshistorymonth #intellectual #culture #humanrights #socialjustice #activism
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"Good #science and good #art are always about a condition of awe …
I don’t think there is any other function for the #poet or the #scientist in the #human tribe but the astonishment of the #soul .
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I have no nation, now, but the #imagination ."—Derek Walcott
#quote #blackmastodon #blackfedi #CreativeToots #spirituality #meditation #inspiration #oddproverbs #friday #life
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📖 #today 's #meditation :
✨To mate with the sublime, sublimate.✨
https://www.dailywisdomtexts.com/yahia_lababidi
#quotes #oddproverbs #spirituality #poetrycommunity #poetry #wisdom
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“In the end, the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world irrupted into this transitory one.”
— Carl Jung
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@6G Oh thanks for that insight. My top trending hashtag was #oddproverbs which was very entertaining.
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#Trending #Hashtags
#vegetableasongormovie 438 people
#JukeboxFridayNight 266 people
#Fensterfreitag 248 people
#throwbackthursday 80 people
#WindowFriday 75 people
#stpatricksday 73 people
#freitag 67 people
#FensterFreitag 62 people
#oddproverbs 59 people
#tbt 50 people -
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I've always found this one curious.
#OddProverbs #ThursdayThoughts #Cliche #USA #Southwest #SlotCanyon #Arizona #BeatingADeadHorse
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My father once told me:
"Find a job that nobody wants to do, do it well, and you will be rewarded with all the things in life that money cannot buy"
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Last night's game did well. 91 players, 419 new #OddProverbs from 47 different servers, that our instance can see.
Thanks for playing my 9 o'Clock @hashtaggames #HashtagGames
~ @paul 😍
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The frenemy of my frenemy is my frenemy.
#OddProverbs #HashtagGames
