November 2008
Trying reverse procrastination : I’m gonna try out my new year’s resolutions in december to see if they fit. First : no comp during week.
Est-il possible d’apprendre à se connaître soi-même par analyse/synthèse ?
“… à peine vingt ans, et déjà rongés par les compromis ? C’est...”
– SI-man, qui se révèle agréablement philosophe, et qui montre que le coup de pied au cul vient souvent de l’extérieur (paradoxalement, c’est la phrase la plus importante de la semaine, et je suis incapable de m’en souvenir, comme si l’idée en elle-même m’avait frappé...
“Mais maintenant, brutalement sortie de ce tumulte, je voulais encore une fois...”
– Mrs C. - Stefan Zweig, Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme
“J’ai créé un monstre !”
– Dr Seb L., exprimant ses remords quant à ce qu’il a fait subir à Romain P.
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
– Albert Schweitzer (via affremblequotes)
The way you kicked me in the balls should have sent me flying, but instead I just sat down and whined for two years. Thank you, though.
“Je vais démontrer les points (2) et (3) en même temps !”
– Eric T., qui nous prouve une fois pour toutes que la prise de risque a du bon.
Deux bronchites en moins d’un mois = epic immune system fail. Mais bon, au moins, j’ai ma dose pour cette année.
“‘Desperate housewives’ essentially functionned as some kind of...”
– Clay Shirky (via http://snurl.com/5d3i2 ; thanks to eldafto)
The only thing about being cynical is, when you stop being cynical, people still think you are. Hence the communication problem.
LifeUpgrade 0.2
eldafto:
digitalyn:
So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay your welcome.
Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what… it’s probably worth it.
You hope, and you dream, but you never believe that something is going to happen for you. Not like it does in the movies. And when it actually does,...
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In...”
– Rose Kennedy (via affremblequotes)
“From the point of view of deep-power structures, the party affiliation of an...”
– this this, oh god this.
oftwominds
(via outlawpoet)
The whole article is, IMO, worth reading.
I have no idea what ‘maverick’ means, but judging by the context, I’m pretty sure it means LOOSER.
*wakes up* Oh look ! The rain has stopped and the clouds are fading away. I wonder how’s the weather in Texas. And New-York. And L.A.
Let’s be realistic : one way or another, the next four years are going to be very interesting. Let’s wait and see.
