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โThose who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.โ
โ Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic
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Star moonstone from Burma, 4.57 carats.
The bottom half of the moonstone shows three rays of the star and a golden adularescence, while the upper half exhibits some of the blue sheen and traces of the star formation.
Source: palagems.com
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Map of Danteยดs Hell
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โOrbits of some comets and planets.โ Natural History. v.33. 1933.
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Sudden love, when gifted to a habitually unloved person, can induce nausea. It can become a thing you would claw and debase yourself for. It is necessary to wean yourself on to it, small portions.
โ Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
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As a character disorder, narcissism is the very opposite of strong self-love. Self-absorption does not produce gratification, it produces injury to the self; erasing the line between self and other means that nothing new, nothing โother,โ ever enters the self; it is devoured and transformed until one thinks one can see oneself in the otherโand then it becomes meaningless. This is why the clinical profile of narcissism is not of a state of activity, but of a state of being. There are erased the demarcations, limits, and forms of time as well as relationship. The narcissist is not hungry for experiences, he is hungry for Experience. Looking always for an expression or reflection of himself in Experience, he devalues each particular interaction or scene, because it is never enough to encompass who he is.
Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man
Red auroras from the Mendip Hills in Somerset, UK. (Image credit: Josh Dury). (Larger)
Antarctic aurora, photographed by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.