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Matthew Wagner

Thought

Regret

Isolation & Solitude

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- Komunyakaa

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.”

- Nietzche

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-Rilke

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Fleas interest me so much that I let them bite me for hours.

They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit, machines that admit of no appeal.

They do not bite to eat, they bite only to jump; they are the dancers of the celestial sphere, delicate acrobats in the softest and most profound circus; let them gallop on my skin, divulge their emotions, amuse themselves with my blood, but someone should introduce them to me.

I want to know them closely, I want to know what to rely on.

-Neruda

The beautiful, according to Edmund Burke, is what is well formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.

Thought is limitless and without consequence. The only binds it faces are those we put on ourselves.

Solitude is not spacial, but mental.

Regret pushes us to right out wrongs and extinguish guilt

Through thought, we often realize how our initial feelings about an event were unnecessary or illogical.

Regret is themost basic evidence of human morality

The ripples of seemingly meaningless actions can travel to the farthest corners of the globe and affect people you will never even meet.

It is important to strike balance between community In many ways, thoughts are “darker, emptier, and isolation.

Memories retain the basic outline and structure of what happened, but are blurred by lack of perspective and the distorting effects of time.

and simpler,” but more often than not, our thoughts require time, and are more than just emotion. They are concious and rational, whereas feelings are an instantaneous response doe to chemical reaction in out minds.

The answer to the most complex problems can often be found in simplicity