December 2011
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coletoad 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.
naegehlowah 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)
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“Life is short,
And pleasures few,
And holed the ship,
And drowned the crew,...”
– Clive Barker (from the character Righteous Bandy in Abarat)
“Ours is not to know why; ours is but to do and die.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
– Philip Roth - extract from “American Patoral” (via myfuckingthinktank)
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus
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“Man’s freedom and man’s responsibility exist independently. But, in the last...”
– Viktor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul. (via ex-ist)
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via loveandfer)
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“…no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (via nminusone)
estringsgstrings asked: I'm assuming you'd have shared, if you'd wanted to, but care to share your personal blog?
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
“I need to rebel against myself. It’s the opposite of following your bliss. I...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via zenlikeme)
titleirrelevant asked: Do you have a personal blog?
dayangonlum-deactivated20120302 asked: What kind of architecture are you studying? By the way, I'd like to mention that your blog has completely transformed me. I've been reading it since a year or so ago, and I can't find myself not coming back to it at the end of each day. I'd just like to say thank you; you've helped me through so much.
holtaire asked: Fuck yeah existentialism is a great addition to the blogging universe. I must ask though, you wouldn't happen to be my old English professor from that one particular school in the Southwest would you? Silly, I know. But are you a professor (or aspiring to be one), English or otherwise? You seem quite scholarly and distinguished.
wornout-astronaut asked: Do you know where I could read online (or download) Sartre's essay Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (not the book, just the first short essay)? Thanks.
insidethefishbowl asked: Less a question, more a statement and compliment: your blog is remarkable. It is a wonderful compilation of extraordinary things. You should be proud.
deardumbworld-deactivated201204 asked: Hello there. You think you could put up another contest sometime? Too bad I missed the first. Great recommendations by the way.
everythingandalways asked: i was hoping there would be something more about you (whoever is behind this tumblr.) are you a philosophy student? why is essence preceding existence false in your opinion and who is/are your favorite existential philosopher(s)?
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“The life of our body is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever postponed...”
– Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (via chunder-)
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...”
– Václav Havel
Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011)
(via amiquote)
“And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom...”
– Clarice Lispector (via misswallflower)
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“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
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“A cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul. At his first violent sin he had...”
– James Joyce; from A portrait of the artist as a young man
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi (via latikaaaa)
“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well,...”
– Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s...”
– 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the...”
– Patrick Henry (via zenlikeme)
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“Inexperience is a quality of the human condition. We are born one time only; we...”
– Milan Kundera
“I don’t know about you, but I’m concerned with what’s happening in this world....”
– Waking Life (via likethesun)