Miscellaneous 03
August 31st, 2011
Archive for August, 2011
Richard Nixon 72
Tiredness without exertion is a sign that energies are being used up in an inner struggle between self-destruction and the will to live.
Illness is an unconscious temporary surrender of the will to live.
Repeated illness is a form of slow suicide.
- Arnold A. Hutschnecker, M.D., The Will to Live (1951)
August 29th, 2011
Richard Nixon 71
When she sees a bank Stuck full of flowers, she, with a sigh, will tell Her servants, what a pretty place it were To bury lovers in; and made her maids Bluck ‘em, and strew her over like a corse.
- Washington Irving, Rural Funerals, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-1820)
August 24th, 2011
