Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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| — | Aldous Huxley (via lionskeleton) |
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I’m sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn’t lust after Psyche.
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| — | Adrian Healey, The Liar (via thisainttherapy) |
Almost everything I am I owe to libraries…I suppose libraries still for me have this extraordinary charge. When I get in one I feel this buzz. It’s almost sexual. There is something about the fact that behind all these bound copies there are voices, there are people murmuring, seducing you, dragging you into their world. These are wonderful magical places and I suppose that if I have a campaign that I am really behind it is that of saving our libraries. Because everyone surely has the right to access the voices of the past.
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| — | Stephen Fry (via hannahmaxima) |
© Christopher Anderson, 2007, Venezuela
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
© Raymond Depardon, 1962, Children playing “building the Wall”, West Berlin / Germany
“I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.” (Claude Chabrol)
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
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| — | Robert Frost, Desert Places (via buried-denmark) |
y a lo mejor
si la sonrisa viene
de muy
de muy adentro
usted puede llorar
sencillamente
sin desgarrarse
sin desesperarse
sin convocar la muerte
sin sentirse vacía
llorar
sólo llorar
entonces su sonrisa
si todavía existe
se vuelve un arco iris.
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| — | Mario Benedetti, fragmento de Arco Iris. |
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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| — | Jose Saramago (via ihaveyourchildren) |
No quiero escribir, no quiero estudiar; quiero, simplemente, ser de verdad; aunque ello me lleve a descubrir que no soy nada.
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| — | Julio Cortázar (via fuckyeahjuliocortazar) |
“Don’t be afraid. The darkness you’re in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body. They are two darknesses separated by a skin. I bet you’ve never thought of that. You carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn’t frighten you… My dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside”
- Jose Saramago
