March 2011
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“You couldn’t even wonder where all that sprang from, or how it was that a world...”
– Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea (via luftschloss)
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“Never have I felt as strongly as today that I was devoid of secret dimensions,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea pg. 53)
“I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here. I am the one who...”
– Sartre, Nausea
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February 2011
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“In the anguished, catastrophic period we live in, we feel an urgent need for a...”
– Antonin Artaud The Theater and Its Double (via starborst)
An Existential Term a Day
deus ex machina (God out of a machine): In ancient Greece when a plot was complicated or tangled, the play writers would just insert a God in the final act in order to solve all the problems. Usually a crane machine was used to drop the actor on stage, hence the name.
0-rollergirl asked: Hello. How do you feel about the Directory being taken away from you after you’ve worked so hard to earn your place on it? Personally, I’m devastated. I’m writing to the support staff and also to John Maloney, President of Tumblr to ask that it be restored. I wonder if they heard from enough of us, they might allow us to have the Explore AND Directory features so everyone can be...
“What exists, I see with certainty. What does not exist, I shall create, if I...”
– Antonin Artaud (via underthechinaberrytree)
“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is...”
– Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via msladybug)
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“As I turned my attention to what is done in the name of religion I was horrified...”
– Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
nicotonic asked: Your blog is my favorite on all of Tumblr. Whenever I need inspiration I come to this blog and read pages after pages. Thank you very, very much for running a very, very influential and interesting blog.
gothamriver asked: Who are you?
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“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers...”
– Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
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“Rational knowledge, as presented by the learned and wise, negates the meaning of...”
– Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
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“My life came to a standstill… the truth was that life is meaningless. And...”
– Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961) pp.17-18.
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“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism (via digitalpidgin)
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An Existential Term a Day
Facticity (throwness): We find ourselves existing in a world not of our own making and indifferent to our concerns. We are not the source of our existence, but find ourselves thrown into a world we don’t control and didn’t choose.
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“No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for this abandonment by everyone. Formerly, I had been quite satisfied with myself, but I had taken very little trouble to increase my self-knowledge; from now on, I would stand outside myself, watch over and observe myself; in my diary I had long conversations with myself. I was entering a...
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can...”
– w. somerset maugham
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“My despair reached such a height that I could do nothing but think of the...”
– Leo Tolstoy, after finishing Anna Karenina
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“I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone,...”
– Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
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Algeria, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen Resource List...
pantslessprogressive:
Categories will be updated as more resources become available. Message me if you have additional resources that can be added.
[Iran Resources: Iran Event Link Portal (via Soup); StandWithFreeIran; SeaofGreen]
[News roundups: Feb. 14; Feb. 15; Feb 16]
Live blogs:
Live Blog - Bahrain | AJE
Live Blog - Libya | AJE
Live Blog - Libya | LibyaFeb17.com
Middle East protests...
“A melancholy lull hung over the streets and it seemed that the pitiful...”
– The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
jorshuwah asked: What are your views on whether it is better to have a dishwasher or to wash your dishes by hand?
halfstack asked: What's your opinion on vanilla pudding? Whenever I eat vanilla pudding it feels like I'm just eating plain pudding; I was wondering if you shared the sentiment.
s0ulbride asked: hi, i was wondering if you could explain to me why Night by Elie Wiesel is considered existentialist literature? :]
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“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“We Are Nowhere And It’s Now” - Bright Eyes (feat....
“It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death...”
– A Grief Observed,C.S. Lewis
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“We are always accomplice to that which leaves us indifferent.”
– George Steiner 