February 2012
23 posts
“I don’t want to deal with myself. I don’t want to exist. I just want to think.”
– Slavoj Žižek (via isomorphismes)
jneilblackman:
We learn at a very early age what kind of people we are. We divide the rest of our life into fine-tuning our tastes and vehemently thrashing against whatever that definition of self is.
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“Just think of me as you’re falling asleep when you wake up you’ll be able to dream”
Better Living Through Not Dying: Better Living at... →
jneilblackman:
I watched an old couple sitting together at the movie theater the other night. They weren’t doing anything particularly remarkable, but I couldn’t stop looking over at them. Maybe it was something in the way the man would explain what was happening—the woman couldn’t hear very well, but she was so…
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (via larmoyante)
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“Live to the point of tears.”
– Albert Camus (via quota-tions)
thelifeguardlibrarian:
The magazines that published the founding texts of modernism are now available in PDF.
(via The Book Bench)
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via marycwells)
“She didn’t see this as a failure, however, but more as a miscalculation. She likened it to how you eventually develop an ability to breathe underwater: it takes a few tries, but you’re no longer restricted to resurfacing.”
