The Flea

“Touch has a memory.”

But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles--they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song. 

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much—everything—in a flash—before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.”

“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you.” 

It is quite rare that two ordinary souls randomly end up next to each other in the middle of a chaos. In such a case, it is even rarer for the two souls to glue the shattered pieces of each other together. The rarity of the coincidence lures them to each other while the healing prospect of such a soul-binding promises the feeling of unity in each other.  The reciprocity of the two souls bumps along without any notice in advance.  Happiness in the shape of unexpected waves becomes the means of their reciprocity.  The more complete the souls get at each wave, the more flattered they feel. Without realising it, the soul welcomes the other with similar kindness. Rewarding the kindness of the other soul adds to the construction of a happier self.  The ever increasing cooperation between the two souls makes it much harder to view the consequences of their shared moments, though. Being so, the two souls could easily move forward in the chaos surrounding them with ‘happier’ selves.

A defining characteristic of human society is its tribalism: its tendency to gather in groups which define themselves by certain common characteristics, and differentiate themselves—set themselves apart from and at odds—with other groups and individuals who do not share these characteristics...  The fact is that people identify with the group of which they are a part, and are suspicious or fearful of those who belong to other groups. This tribalism is true in countless dimensions, from income to accent to national origin to sexual activity to race to musical taste...

Sexism is a social disease.

Language is the ground of being.

"If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end, but if human beings were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

'Little did he know', That means there's something he doesn't know, which means there's something you don't know, did you know that?

“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”

“There is a weird power in a spoken word.”

The human mind is designed to convert experience into memory and store that memory - helpful for the survival of the collective memory.