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My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I am a fossil dating from the beginning of the world: not all of its elements have completely crystallized, and initial chaos still shows through. I am absolute contradiction, climax of antinomies, the last limit of tension; in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.
- Emil Cioran
“I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.”
— Emil Cioran
EMIL M. CIORAN
The Trouble with Being Born, or De l’inconvénient d’être né (1998), translated by Richard Howard;
original photos and edit
I can not believe Hozier has the audacity to drop a song like Almost (Sweet Music) and then tell us we have to wait until March for the rest of the album
One day every year is the anniversary of the Big Bang, and we have no idea which day it is.
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
— William Saroyan, My Heart’s in the Highlands (via books-n-quotes)
Le Mans - France (by annajewels)
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“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”
— Monica Drake, Clown Girl (via books-n-quotes)
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: People thinks there’s one reality, but there’s loads of them, all snaking off, like roots. And what we do on one path affects what happens on the other paths. Time is a construct. People think you can’t go back and change things, but you can, that’s what flashbacks are, they’re invitations to go back and make different choices. When you make a decision, you think it’s you doing it, but it’s not. It’s the spirit out there that’s connected to our world that decides what we do and we just have to go along for the ride. Mirrors let you move through time. The government monitors people, they pay people to be you relatives and they put drugs in your food and they film you. There’s messages in every game. Like Pac-Man. Do you know what PAC stands for? P-A-C: “program and control.” He’s Program and Control Man the whole things a metaphor, he thinks he’s got free will but really he’s trapped in a maze, in a system, all he can do is consume, he’s pursued by demons that are probably just in his own head, and even if he does manage to escape by slipping out one side of the maze, what happens? He comes right back in the other side. People think it’s a happy game, it’s not a happy game, it’s a fucking nightmare world and the worst thing is it’s real and we live in it. It’s all code. If you listen closely, you can hear the numbers. There’s a cosmic flowchart that dictates where you can and where you can’t go. I’ve given you the knowledge. I’ve set you free. Do you understand? I’ll show you what I mean. Come with me. We’re on one path. Right now, me and you. And how one path ends is immaterial. It’s how our decisions along the path affect the whole that matters, do you believe me?
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via books-n-quotes)
“The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labeling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don’t argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.”
— Plato, Conversations with Plato (via books-n-quotes)
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via books-n-quotes)
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter (via books-n-quotes)
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall (via books-n-quotes)
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)
“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via books-n-quotes)
“Oh, my beautiful broken white rose! Don’t give up on your dreams, in achieving them you are so close.”
— Girl followed by shadows
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via books-n-quotes)
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
— David Nicholls, One Day (via books-n-quotes)
“What do you say when the feelings don’t fit into words?”
— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines (via books-n-quotes)
Guess what, another Christmas doggos.