"Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being."
— Franz Kafka (via moldavia)
Posted 2 weeks ago
"I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most pernicious inclinations. What could be more stupid to persist in carrying a burden that we constantly want to cast off, to hold our existence in horror, yet cling to it nonetheless, to fondle the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our heart?"
— Voltaire, Candide (via moldavia)
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Posted 2 weeks ago
"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke."
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Søren Kierkegaard
(via absurdreflections)
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Posted 2 weeks ago
"In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (via blue-voids)
(via free-parking)
Posted 2 weeks ago
"Minimalism is not a lack of something, it’s simply the perfect amount of something."
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Nicholas Burroughs
(via free-parking)
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Posted 2 weeks ago
"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but
function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
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Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via dulcetdecember)
This is exactly how I plan to live henceforth…
(via theearlofmelancholy)
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Posted 2 weeks ago
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
— Vladimir Nabokov (via disease)
(via wolfsmilk)
Posted 3 months ago
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
— Plato (via nofatnowhip)
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Posted 4 months ago
"And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution"
— Albert Camus, from The First Man— Camus’ unfinished final novel. (via evocativesynthesis)
Posted 5 months ago
"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
— Homer, The Illiad (via larmoyante)
(Source: larmoyante, via somethingvain)
Posted 10 months ago
"Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. In this latter case, unfortunately, there is no scientific test that would prove the discrepancy between perception and reality. Although the possibility of gross deception is infinitely greater here than in our perception of the physical world, we still go on naively projecting our own psychology into our fellow human beings. In this way everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection."
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Carl Jung, General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1916)
(Source: gaws)
Posted 10 months ago
"I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it’s quite a job starting to like somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again."
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
(via gaws)
Posted 10 months ago
"It’s a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world."
— Frank O’Hara (via conceptnoir)
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Posted 10 months ago
