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Category: Andrew Levkoff

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.

ignorance, virtue

I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.

ignorance, love

They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.

act, action, action-over-thought, death, fear, flight

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.

fate, life-experience, life-lessons

Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

comeuppance, fate, two-sides, two-sides-to-the-story

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

kindness, mercy, war

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

compassion, cruelty, indifference, rome

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

lying, perfidy, unintended-consequences

There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There is nothing like it under the heavens. Like bread, it will not be made with flour or water alone; the recipe requires both. Guarding each other’s vulnerability provides the yeast that makes it rise, and salt from the tears that caring brings lends the finishing touch.

love, unrequited-love

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

disappointment, life-lesson, moderation, setting-goals

It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps. The past remains stationary, while we are doomed to move ever onwards. To do otherwise is against nature.

aging, the-past, time, time-passing

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

insult, revenge