pace kipling, but in spanish

La lucha siempre era, siempre es, y supongo siempre seria contra el fracaso.
Aveces pierdes, aveces ganas.
Aveces sentis que estas perdiendo cuando realmente estas ganando.
Y aveces sentis que ganas, cuando la realidad es que nunca puedes ganar todo el tiempo.
Hay epocas de victoria y epocas de fracaso y es asi la vida.
El truco es acordarte de lo que no esta pasando cuando esta pasando lo que esta pasando.

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it could quite reasonably be argued that we inhabit -

- A world cursed by the fascism of perfection.

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pitfalls of the consumer society (#274)

Thinking oneself - one's problems, peccadilloes and perfections - unique, is the first step on the road to ordinariness.

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its easier to take an engine to pieces than it is to put it back together again!

Once you have negated someone, it's a tricky technical operation to un-negate them.

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dealing with the inevitable

If you try too hard to achieve something, you are liable to fail at it.

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(And success is nothing more than another trick of the mind.)

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dos anos

No son tanto,
Pero son bastante.

(Assuming my understanding of the last word is better than the italian director who irked his Uruguayan actors according to la Panella)

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near-identical formulas

Time recedes in volume with age.

or

Time's volume recedes with age.

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by and large:

The desire to talk about oneself is in proportion to the importance someone has been lead (or lead themselves) to believe they possess.

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spot the difference

Some feel themselves to be significant and feel no need not to inform the world of this fact.

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Some feel themselves to be significant and feel no need to inform the world of this fact.

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human touch

The capacity for extraordinariness is unavoidably linked with the capacity to be ordinary.

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out of interest...

How can we know what we do want to happen if we don't know what we don't want to happen?

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one coin with many sides

Just because someone comes across as a saint under given circumstances, it does not mean to say that under other circumstances they might not find themselves playing the devil.

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sparkle

Being fascinated with someone and being enamoured of them are two seperate things which are frequently confused.

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in the library

Through the simple act of sitting in near-silence for a while, with a task to be done and no distractions, a state of serenity can be achieved.

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the nietzschean hippy

People tend to believe that if someone's incapable of hating, or even disliking, their enemy, or someone who crosses them, then this is a sign of weakness.

They are wrong. It may not look like it, but it is a sign of strength.

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your paranoia

Is all of your own making.

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Probably.

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too much information

Anyone who feels the need to inform you of the fact that they're a free spirit.

Probably isn't.

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inscription on a san francisco monastery sundial

Every hour that passes wounds thee and the last will kill thee.

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Quoted by Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire

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our pledge to you

If you want your life to be a self-fulfilling prophesy -
That can easily be arranged.

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the height of the walls

Everyone can have an opinion about someone else's tent.

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The only ones who will ever know what the inside of the tent looks like are they who (have) dwell(ed) within it.

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