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Pleasure today, Pain tomorrow or … vice versa?

 

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Excruciating pain, yet I haven’t reached that emotional threshold…
 
It is my umpteenth attempt to get to grips with my life.  I do procrastinate.  I do associate more pain with looking for a job than abstaining from it.  Well, starting tomorrow… Right!
 
“Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute.”
 
 
 
 
The Force That Shapes Your Life
Anthony [...]

Post # 342. In the Process…

 
 
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
 
 
It is a Saturday, a sunny and cold day in Toronto.  In 1993, February 6th was a Saturday, it was sunny in the morning and cold, the roads were slippery (talk about signs!!!), but then it warmed up enough for a real snow storm in the [...]

Just forget it.

 
At this time it is the favourite expression of my son.  “Just forget it.  Everything will be fine.”
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
— Charles Baudelaire
I could not agree more.  Keeping a diary is a way of remembering.  Therefore a diary is a torture device to a certain extent.  I still keep one, but [...]

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

 
 
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
 
 
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
 
 
“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
 
 
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical [...]