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Posted on February 23, 2023February 22, 2023

“We’re all just walking each other home.”—Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), American spiritual leader, 1931-2019

Posted on January 29, 2023

“The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on January 28, 2023

“I’ve been things and seen places.”—Mae West, American actress, 1893-1980

Posted on December 11, 2022

“To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri PĂ©tain, French ambassador, 1876-1944

Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–

Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022

“One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821

Posted on October 7, 2022

“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

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