People exercise an unconscious selection in being — T. S. Eliot

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year. Journey of the Magi [1927] ♥ 1 Who then devised the torment? Love. ♥ 1 The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year ♥ 1

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne Strength does not come from physical capacity; it comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. Albert Einstein