January 2012
39 posts
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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.
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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)
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“Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or)...”
– Alan Watts
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“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting...”
– Franz Kakfa, Aphorisms (1918).
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“We are sinful, not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also...”
– Aphorisms #83, Franz Kafka The Zurau (via kerwinwp)
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
– George Orwell (via thinksquad)
December 2011
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coletodd asked: What are some texts you would recommend me? I've read most of Camus, and a few Sartre. Also I just started on Kafka, Dostoevesky, and Heidegger. Anything you could recommend would be appreciated.
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“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Celia Bown (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)
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adecentfellow asked: Whoever you are, running this, you are fantastic.
ilestsansraison asked: Thanks for putting together such a blog.
drowned-in-the-inkwell asked: your blog is one of the few I dutifully follow. thanks!
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“Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my...”
– Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360, at 77
(from Japanese Death Poems, edited by Yoel Hoffmann)
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
– Emil Cioran (via comfortably-dumb)