February 2012
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in...
– Marcel Proust (via philphys)
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[Socrates] did say well, if we are lucky, perhaps I will be able to hold...
– Christopher Hitchens
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‘Whither is God?’ he cried; ‘I will tell you.’ We have killed him — you and I....
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
I claim that melancholy occurs not when we lose the object, but precisely when...
– Slavoj Zizek
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…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you...
– William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by.
– Charles Bukowski (via iamyoursuppressedthoughts)
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The human mind delights in finding pattern — so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
Stephen Jay Gould
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So, the whole idea, you see, is that everything’s falling apart, so don’t try...
– Alan Watts (via cultureofresistance)
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My hapless peers with their lofty dreams - how I envy and despise them! I’m with...
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via drunkonliterature)
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In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts that I...
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via drunkonliterature)
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I shall never tire of underlining a concise little fact which these...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via windsofentropy)
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