<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448577" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Misanthrope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hand myself these challenges<br>and if I win<br>I preen; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hand myself these challenges<br>and if I lose<br>knowledge and experience I guess I gain; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hand myself still greater challenges<br>and hope they don't <br>ending up educating me to death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surviving then<br>the worst of these, <br>if lucky, <br>I could be crippled for life<br>but end up very very wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know actually<br>I'd rather skip<br>the educated, crippled and possibly dead part<br>and perhaps too<br>skip the my birth itself<br>and go straight to heaven in one piece<br>one day and still healthy, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">where God and and I would discuss<br>the Joys and the Dreads of Earthly Life<br>in the presence of the angels<br>and delightful cherubic lads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thereby I would gain immortality<br>and never ever<br>have to get dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humm..<br>All in all<br>I think<br>this idea is best in many ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if you are reading this <br>you are already alive<br>the both of us having made our first mistake; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that of having been born<br>and probably depending on age<br>very very very wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Womb Returns and Pilgrimages<br>are clearly out of the question<br>and therefore I will have to <br>stop complaining<br>and make the best<br>of life here on earth; <br>weary simile on my face<br>and reconciled <br>to the wise joys<br>of this Earthly <br>Grand In-Between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448577" data-title="Misanthrope de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="I hand myself these challenges and if I win I preen; I hand myself these challenges and if I lose knowledge and experience I guess I gain; I hand myself still greater challenges and hope they don't ending up educating me to death. Surviving..."></div> </div> </div>

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