Category: Song of the Day

Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil: 'Very well, I will marry you if you...

There is still left a single story of a way, that it is. On this way there are signs exceedingly many -- that being ungenerated it is also imperishable, whole and of a single kind and unshaken and complete. Nor was it ever nor will it be, since it is now, all...

He is the god and yet his eye rests with concern on the human race, because the tender shoot of the individual can be crushed as quickly as that of a blade of grass. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition The corn, the grass, the fragrance of the night, together with the...

We may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation. -- George A. Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten. --...

Breathing in, I see myself as still water, a calm, clear lake in and around me. Breathing out, I reflect things just as they are, inside and around me. Breathing in, I see myself as the big blue sky, with lots of space in and around me. Breathing out, I feel very free...

There is no invisible river of time. But there are things that you could call instants of time, or 'Nows'... There are many such Nows, all different from each other. That's my ontology of the universe -- there are Nows, nothing more, nothing less.... The rules of the...

The rite of passing between the parts of an object that has been halved, or between two branches, or under something, is one which must, in a certain number of cases, be interpreted as a direct rite of passage by means of which a person leaves one world behind him and...

We are wrongly taught to pity those whose lives are modified by fear. And while a fear of, for example, mice may seem irrational given the great disparity in the sizes of the adversaries, it is entirely logical to fear the common house cat, a creature descended from...

How did I come into the world; why was I not asked, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations, but thrust into the ranks as if I had been forced by a Seelenverkopper? ...Where is the manager, I would like to make a complaint! -- Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition...