*DEEP THOUGHTS SEPTEMBER 2023*

        *September 2023 DEEP THOUGHTS*

...we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the : of life’s morning. For what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

- Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933

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Jokes are the exit signs in a very dark room. 

- author Lorrie Moore in her novel, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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Ultimately, it’s a matter of taste—whether you want to let the mystery ring or be absorbed by the dull thud of the mundane.

- UFO Researcher Mark Pilkington, The Enticing Mysteries of UFO Photography, The New Yorker, August 3, 2023

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As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion —whether they're triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment — if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say.

-Author Amor Towles in RULES OF CIVILITY: A NOVEL