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"You acknowledge your mistakes, and learn from...
Mara Jade Skywalker
Why dogs don't live as long as people... →
Short story called: “Why dogs don’t live as long as people…”
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very much attached to Belker and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family...
s0nata:
Only You- Winter Sonata
Song 6 &...
“The bigger the galaxy, the sweeter the homecoming.”
– Corellian proverb. (via joelle-rose)
[Sangrienta fue toda tierra del hombre]
Pablo Neruda’s great. My favorite:
In English (no attempt to keep the meter intact):
Bloody were all man’s lands. Time, buildings, roads, rain, wash away the evidence, the truth is that a planet so small was covered a thousand times with blood, war or vengeance, ambush or battle, men fell, were devoured, soon the oblivion was clearing each square meter: once a vague deceitful...
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac, The Lonesome Traveler
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nevver)