February 2012
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann
“Let all be simple. Let all stand still
Without a final direction.
That which...”
– Charles Simic, from “Evening” (via awritersruminations)
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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via human-voices)
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the...”
– Alan Watts (via human-voices)
“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m...”
– Sartre (via odettenoire)
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FYExistentialism Playlist →
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“I loved them, according to the hallowed expression, which amounts to saying that...”
– Albert Camus (via phredosophy)
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“The famous ‘going beyond’ Marxism in an idealistic and humanitarian direction is...”
– Albert Camus, The Self-Deception of the Socialist (via fuckyeahemergence)
January 2012
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“I closed my eyes and listened to the novel emotions gurgling through me. Feeling...”
– Jeff Lindsay, Dexter In The Dark (via mind-crumbs)
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The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde
Ernest: Must we go, then, to Art for everything?
Gilbert: For everything. Because Art does not hurt us. The tears that we shed at a play are a type of the exquisite sterile emotions that it is the function of Art to awaken. We weep, but we are not wounded. We grieve, but our grief is not bitter. In the actual life of man, sorrow, as Spinoza says somewhere, is a passage to a lesser perfection....
“Life will perpetuate itself, events will go on happening, spiritual conflicts...”
– Antonin Artaud, Fragments of a Journal in Hell from Artaud Anthology (via toniiu)
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“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do...”
– Antonin Artaud (via schweigend)
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“Sounds like an illusion to me. Lives don’t change. We simply become more...”
– Dr David Worth, Bored to Death, s01e03. (via occultette)
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi (via human-voices)
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“So, the whole idea, you see, is that everything’s falling apart, so don’t try...”
– Alan Watts (via cultureofresistance)
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“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
– Marcel Proust (via ahnuhlycious)
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“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead,...”
– Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu [lit. In search of lost time, trans. as Remembrance of Things Past] (vol. I, Swann’s Way) (1913) (trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin)
late-moderne-girl-deactivated20 asked: what are some good books to start on existentialism?
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“Man cannot be sometimes slave and sometimes free; he is wholly and forever free...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre - ”Being and Nothingness” (via theoldludwigvan)
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“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via awritersruminations)
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“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via awritersruminations)
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“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may perhaps be the very best thing...”
– From The world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer (via bookoflead)
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength To Love, 1963
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“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. in an address given in Birmingham, Alabama on December 31, 1963
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“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of...”
– From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
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“If, in everyday life, you are asked about continued existence after death by one...”
– Schopenhauer (via thewholeblinkingcosmos)
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“The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose...”
– Bernard Jaffe, I Heart Huckabees (via pammerisms)
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“Existence is exhausting.”
– Doctor Who 6x11 “The God Complex” (via kaipai)
“In mature love, we do not look to our partner to provide our happiness, and we...”
– Christine Meinecke, author of Everybody Marries the Wrong Person via psychotherapy (via electrichoney)
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? … Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via cleopatracomnenos)
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“The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 (via nofreerefills)
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“It’s good to be free; for then you can sleep and let desire and malaise follow...”
– Ingmar Bergman, Images (via aclockwithouthands)
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“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right....”
– John Berger, “Ways of Seeing” (pg 148)
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“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.”
– Franz Kafka, Aphorism 52 in Unpublished Works 1916-1918
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“This is the essential joke of reality - it goes on.
(…)
Is man’s search for a...”
– Zach Weiner (via cafeparaacordarosmortos)
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“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t...”
– Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)