March 2012
February 2012
“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via splashmeadouble)
“I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via scottiehughes)
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Banality, Celebrity, and the Presupposition of...
“The celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embodying the image of a possible role. Being a star means specializing in the seemingly lived: the star is the object of identification with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations which are actually lived. Celebrities exist to act out...
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“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams (via fuckyeahcarljung)
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Affirmation by Donald Hall
To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it.
Even when we are young,
we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads
when a grandfather dies.
Then we row for years on the midsummer
pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage,
that began without harm, scatters
into debris on the shore,
and a friend from school drops
cold on a rocky strand.
If a new love carries us
past middle...
“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and...”
– Donald Hall, from “Affirmation” (via proustitute)
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...”
– Georges Bataille, Guilty, (via foxesinbreeches)
“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only...”
– Irène Némirovsky, Suite Francaise (via hateshiploveship)
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“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds; it will get you nowhere....”
– Eileen Caddy (via katiekashmir)
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen (via theoldludwigvan)
