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post #1 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:29pm
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I was careless with my heart.
I let her hold it,
though she didn't know what to do with it.

I guess I'll never really know why,
but she set it aside. She took it for granted.

And now its gone.

Can a man live without a heart?
Animals have adapted to live without sunlight.
They are small and pale and they cannot see, but they live.
Sunlight is more important than love, isn't it?

I woke up today without a heart,
and as long as I keep waking up,
I guess I will live on without one.


"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" - (Wm Shakespeare - As You Like It. Act V, Scene II).
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post #2 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:39pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
Can a man live without a heart?

Yes, and some do quite well that way, though most are better off with it than without it.

Do you know the story that Lincoln liked to tell about the wise ruler who asked his poets to come up with a perfectly true and timeless saying?

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creat...eches/fair.htm
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post #3 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:41pm
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction! "And this, too, shall pass away." And yet let us hope it is not quite true. Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social, and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
Quoted for posterity.
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post #4 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:42pm
Sometimes I fell my, broken heart pumps stronger .
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post #5 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:47pm
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Originally Posted by vaclava krishna View Post
Sometimes I fell my, broken heart pumps stronger .

My heart beats with the sound of a taiko drum in my chest. As if it were trying to beat away the weight that presses upon it with full scope of my failed love.
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post #6 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:49pm
Presidents day: The day SF went emo.

How depressing.
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post #7 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:52pm
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Originally Posted by vaclava krishna View Post
Sometimes I fell my, broken heart pumps stronger .
He lives?
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post #8 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by GoSurface View Post
Presidents day: The day SF went emo.

How depressing.

Fuck emo.

I am in the process of killing off any emotions that remain inside.

I thought I'd learned my lesson long ago, but it looks like I needed a refresher.

A distraction with a stinger in the tail.
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post #9 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:53pm
What is this emo shit? This from the man who posted ceaselessly about love being nothing more than a simple chemical addiction? Next we'll get a thread about cutting yourself with your Dashboard Confessional cd.
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post #10 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
Fuck emo.

I am in the process of killing off any emotions that remain inside.

I thought I'd learned my lesson long ago, but it looks like I needed a refresher.

A distraction with a stinger in the tail.
Lincoln ... Lincoln ... Lincoln ...
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post #11 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:55pm
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Originally Posted by Arethusa View Post
This from the man who posted ceaselessly about love being nothing more than a simple chemical addiction? Next we'll get a thread about cutting yourself with your Dashboard Confessional cd.

This thread is but a warning. Those who don't heed the warning shall pay the price.

Nobody can follow their own advice 100% of the time.
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post #12 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:55pm
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

A rather pithy quote from one of my favorite authors, Georges Bataille.
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post #13 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:57pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
Fuck emo.

I am in the process of killing off any emotions that remain inside.

I thought I'd learned my lesson long ago, but it looks like I needed a refresher.

A distraction with a stinger in the tail.

Reading all the threads in Current events, Money and Power will help.
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post #14 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:58pm
Slim, don't forget that As You Like It ends happily. You should also take a look at Measure for Measure.
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post #15 of 108
2/18/08 at 11:58pm
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Presidents day: The day SF went emo.
No shit. Go post it on your livejournal instead!
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