Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Interpretation
Scars symbolize our real experiences and narrate our personal histories.
This quote suggests that scars, both physical and emotional, serve as powerful reminders of our past. They signify that we have experienced pain and challenges, thus grounding us in our own reality and shaping our identities through lived experiences.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of embracing one's past.
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
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