Red dragon book:: 'Get a place when I retire and stop living like a cave fish.' What does this mean?
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Cave fish live in a very small place, and often have no eyes or eyesight. They never leave the small cave they dwell in, and rely on the water flowing through the cave to bring them food and sustenance.  It means that after this person retires they want to stop having the same experiences and views, and perhaps take some risks and try new things, unlike what they have done before. They want to leave the cave of their past life and see entirely new things..
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it means someone was once free to live as they wish. that was along time ago. in a very different place, far far away.
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I think it is another slang way of saying get ready to move out...like 'boots and saddles' was used too.
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Your dreams are just your thoughts or items that are packed tightly in your subconcious. You really have to look at what fishing can represent metaphorically. And even the others fishing or taking over for you can represent something metaphorically. \n\nImagine flying in a dream. That usually means that you are in complete control of situations that are going on in your life, and you are soaring above all of your problems with ease. Likewise, a dream where you are running in slow motion can mean that you have goals, or something that you can't get to or acknowledge because something is causing you to slow down, or there is something holding you back.\n\nFishing could mean any numer of things. The only reason that your mind is using fishing over the last few years is because thats the only way your subconcious wants to represent your problems. The same dream will mean very different problems, which is why the dreams change (sometimes you get the fish out, sometimes another person is there). I imagine that fishing could mean things in your life that you are searching or fighting for which is represented by the actual act of fishing (love, health, weight problems, material things, friends, school, career...), and these things sometimes require work or commitment (which is why you sometimes succeed in bringing the fish in.) \n\nTake a look at the whole package and what they could mean. Everything you remember about your dream, even the size of the fish, the struggle, to the person in your dream can mean any number of ideas. As days go by, the dreams can represent different issues.
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I think that the meaning to this quote is quite a spiritual one.  Since it is certain that you were born and it is certain that you will someday die.  So when a doctor tells you that you are plagued by an incurable cancer, you are experiencing the possibility of death only because you were born.  However, the key word is possibility and that is where "save for the middle" comes in. It is what you do with the gift (your birth) of your life (the middle) that provides determines your end (your death).
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It's from Horace - I will look it up for you...\n\nI found some translations, but since it it a poem, they have all taken some literary license.  The part you have put up is only the first two lines, and I have given you the first four.  Literally, it starts out, "You will live correctly, Licinius, neither always pressing while storms..."    altum means deep or high, but the word it modifies isn't given.\n\nYour life will be better by not pressing\nAlways out to deep sea, Licinius\nNor by staying too close to shore and guessing\nWhere rocks lie treacherous.\n\nYou better sure shall live, not evermore\nTrying high seas; nor, while sea’s rage you flee,\nPressing too much upon ill-harboured shore.\n\nYou will live more rightly, Licinius, \nneither by always pressing far out onto the deep sea \nwhen you are bold, \nnor by too closely hugging the unfriendly shore \nwhen you quake, wary of storms.\n\nSeek to live, Licinius, life more fitly,\nNeither pressing always to open seas nor\nSo afraid of storms that you steer too close to\nTreacherous shorelines.
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Hes talking about letting the old flames (old Lover) die. meaning, let it go... and moooooooooooove on!!!
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When you stop learning. When you stop growing up and start growing old. When you become cynical.  When you lose your optimism. When you stop improving. When complacency sets in.   When you stop playing. You don't stop playing because you got old. You get old because you stop playing.  When you can see nothing new because of your myopia.  When your horizons don't expand but your waistline does. When you've resigned start welcoming death.
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Ακόμα δεν απέθανα κι ανάψαν τα κεριά μου.\n\nThe literal meaning for this is - your family has prepared for your eventual death though you are still living.\n\nIt's a very interesting Greek Proverb.
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The saying does go, "come hell or high waters", and my dad once told me it referred to people living in the desert.  They would build towns that were meant to stay right where they were come hell (the intense summer heat and occasional fires) or high waters (floods).
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All it means is that you've got good metabolism.  Be careful, however, because it can slow down rather quickly as you go on through life, so you'll have to remember to start eating less as you grow older.
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When you WANT something, you wish you can have it, but you can live without it.\nWhen you NEED something, you HAVE to have it, it's essential. And you can't live without it.
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You are no loser! \nThose words are written in complete sentences.\nThat means you are a clear thinker.\nWe all make mistakes, so what! \n\nWe are born to learn and experience life. If you were perfect you wouldn't be human. would you! \n\nWe are lucky if we don't carry a lot sad memories and regret with us because it will weight us down and keep us from achieving our true goals.  You have only so much energy - do you want to waste it thinking about things that are done? There done and finished. Let them be.\n\nIf I was you my top priorities would be to 1st remember what is most important LOVE. \n\nIf you are a kind person you will get kindness in return. \n\nYou don't have to be smart to be wise.\n\nYou don't need to go to college to be well educated in this country.  Libraries are free.\n\nDecide what your passion is in life and go to the library and ask the reference librarian how to do research.  I learned to do research at the university and I realized that was All needed to be well educated. \n\nMy father was an inventor he never went to college. Most people 50 years ago got the best educations by just following their passion and reading. Be happy have and be a good friend and enjoy your life. \n\nBeing well off gets you nothing but worrying about how to protect a lot of stuff.  Be free, travel and get to know the world you live in.  So you are not ruled by fear and believe the lies of people that want to mislead you, be wise.  \n\nKaren
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means don't plan your whole life ahead, if it was meant to be it will happen if it wasn't well you were destined to do/see/be somewhere/something else. And the reality of your plans failing will hit you hard if you keep planning everything. \n"Life is what happens while you're planning everything else."
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In my humble opinion, the not feeding the fish but them still being alive it the big thing in this dream.  There is something you want to do but you have been putting it aside and leaving unattended for a long time.  It is time that you start up whatever it is that you have put to the side and complete it.  Before wasn't the right time, now is.
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It means what you want to be when you grow up.  It may be very general, as in "I want to have a high salary doing something I love to do," or it may be very specific, as "I want to earn a Ph.D. in economics and teach in a graduate program."
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Red is saying that he won't get out of prison until he's old and gray. \nAlso, the term "lost my marbles" refers to ones loss of sanity, so Red is implying that his "marbles", or sanity, will be almost gone before he gets out.\n\nGreat movie, great book.