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"love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves."
"two thousand years have come and gone--and not a single new god!"
friedrich nietzsche

seize the day.

reminds me of milton van sant's note. he committed suicide by jumping of the golden gate bridge. he had left this note:

"i'm going to walk to the bridge. if one person smiles at me on the way, i won't jump."

an app that connects blind people and sighted people through their smart devices. official website

ethereum is a solution looking for a problem.

is an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation.

had an enduring desire to imitate achilles. he died at age 32. he was tutored by aristotle.

we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.
jim rohn

brain studies have shown that the withdrawal of romantic love activates the same mechanisms in our brain that get activated when addicts are withdrawing from substances like cocaine or opioids.

"...there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. we are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations."

expert.

our thing.

"i opened the book, picking a passage at random, and came across a tale about alexander the great. the emperor, as the story went, received as a gift some wondrous glass dishes. he liked the gifts very much, but smashed them all nonetheless. "why? are they not beautiful?" he was asked. "precisely because of that," he answered. "they are so beautiful that it would be hard for me to lose them. and with time they would break, one by one. and i would be sorrier than i am now."

the tale was naive but it still astonished me. its lesson was bitter: one should renounce everything he might ever begin to love, because loss and disappointment are inevitable. we must renounce love in order not to lose it. we must destroy our love so that it will not be destroyed by others. we must renounce every attachment, because of the possibility of regret. this thought is cruelly hopeless. we cannot destroy everything we love; there will always be the possibility that others will destroy it for us."

the akhal-teke is a turkmene horse. the name 'akhal' comes from the ahal region of turkmenistan. it is one of the rarest and purest horse breeds in the world. it was allegedly seen in europe (brought by the ottoman empire) at the siege of vienna for the first time. it was mentioned as 'turk's wing' in the oldest comprehensive turkish dictionary.

these horses are super durable and can go without water for 3 days. i have never seen such a fascinating, majestic, and underrated animal. yes, in my opinion, the akhal-teke is the most beautiful animal in the world. it looks like a mythological character. imageimage

horses have always been really significant for the turkish people for more than 5000 years. they used to name horses according to their hair color.

it was first introduced to the west by turkish (ottoman) people in the 16th century.
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