Andrei Tarkovsky’s “STALKER” (1979)

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. If this is true, and they have actually been looking forward to death all their lives, it would of course be absurd to be troubled when the thing comes for which they have so long been preparing and looking forward.
— Socrates, the Phaedo (via deaths-and-entrances)

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Kant said that the history of philosophy was a battlefield. He was absolutely right. But it is also the repetition of the same battle, in the same field.
— Alain Badiou, The Enigmatic Relationship between Philosophy and Politics (via deaths-and-entrances)

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And I, infinitesima­l being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via speakmnemosyne)
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
I will be what I will be.
— God - The Bible; Exodus 3:14
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
— Orson Scott Card, Sarah (via quotes-shape-us)
I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one,
allowed me to look directly at those
rancid faces
in my world
— “Dostoevsky,” Charles Bukowski (via anyliveman)
Character is destiny.
— Heraclitus
What I value the most is the perishable. I love the way it exhausts and refills me. Yes; I love only what vanishes: shaky words, trembling answers, not knowing how to say goodbye, not knowing how to stay inside my head […]
— Katherine Mansfield, from a journal entry dated 10 January 1910 (via violentwavesofemotion)

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay
‘Cause I could draw, and my uncle was, and I kept my room straight
I told my mom tears rushing down my face
She’s like “Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-k shrimp”
Trippin’, yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, “yea I’m good at little league”
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing god, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don’t know
And god loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago

And I can’t change, Even if I tried. Even if I wanted to
I can’t change, Even if I try, Even if I wanted to
My love, My love, My love
She keeps me warm.

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately
“Man, that’s gay” gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we’re saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don’t have acceptance for ‘em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It’s the same hate that’s caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself.
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren’t anointed
That holy water that you soak in is then poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that’s not important
No freedom till we’re equal, damn right I support it.

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It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
—  Albert Camus (via faulknerandfieldnotes)

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