June 2012
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June 3rd
I have found that whereas I seek comfort from the bleak loneliness of the night, I instead desire solitude in the dawn. As I write this, it is 4:38am, and the house is silent - aside from the heavy breathing of those in the neighbouring room. The sky is shedding its dark enrapture and brightening to a pale but luminescent blue, and there is a soft falling of rain giving the air a damp, replenished...
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May 2012
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I feel as if I could crumble beneath myself at any moment. I walk, weary, wrestling with and yet depending on my thoughts. But they’re just thoughts, momentary visions that pirouette across your mind and vanish the moment you blink. And what use do they have, when you exert all your efforts trying to control them, mould them, develop them into something constructive and confident, exhausting...
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“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman
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So basically, we're all bitched.
I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with both the world and the people who inhabit it. Nothing is as it should be. No-one is who or where they truly want to be. We’re staying up later, living longer, and yet there’s never enough time. Things that truly matter appear to have lost all relevance and meaning. People are angrier, lonelier, increasingly hurt and unhappy. People find...
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“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so...”
– Freud
“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his...”
– Louis Kahan (via incenses)
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Friday thoughts: "What doesn't kill you makes you...
Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, famously said: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” This notion found life beyond Nietzsche’s—which is ironic, his having been rather short and miserable—and it continues to resonate within American culture.
One reason is that suffering, as Freud famously recognized, is an inevitable part of life. Thus we have...
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“Poor boy, there is no hope for you. I have discovered your great wound; this...”
– Franz Kafka (via narcosis)
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“…in the majority of cases we are struggling, in our conscious spontaneity,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, “Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions”
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“You should have been alive in 1850s Paris, Charlie. You would’ve loved it,...”
– My dad gave me some of his copies Proust, Cocteau, Sartre, and Zola this evening. (With the above insight, naturally.)
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WatchThis is the oddest thing… but I think I like it.
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