"the book’s pages contain such simple wisdom that it can seem almost silly to say that I needed to see it written down, but Aurelius’ injunction to ‘fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you’ was the battle cry I needed"*
öyle olor bacım, en çetin hikmetler en basitleri olor
* Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life: aeon.co/ideas/marcus-au...
11 November 1927
Darling forgive my faults. I hate them in myself, and I know you are right. But they they are silly surface things. My love for you is absolutely true, vivid, and unalterable...
Vita
And last, the language of cats. O, yes, cats speak, gentlefriend, doubt it not—if you own more than one and can’t see them at this particular moment, chances are they’re off in a corner somewhere lamenting the fact that their owner seems to spend all their time reading silly books rather than paying them the attention they so richly deserve.
"Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe."
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the silly people don't know their own silly business.
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
