January 2010
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to...
– Jean-Paul Sartre in The Age of Reason (1945) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it...
– Albert Camus (via booklover) (via jjarichardson) (via ataxiwardance) (via sunshadowpoet) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
I stared in horror at the raw pink patch that was its neck,where the head had...
– A dream… perhaps nightmare.
She knew I was no longer there. I was delving into the darker unease of...
I tried to concentrate on reading the book. Our own life seemed even less...
She sighed deeply. ‘Sometimes’, she said. ‘Sometimes I hate...
– an excerpt.
Yet alone, with my thoughts and my growing unease, I found myself adrift on a...
Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
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fact, believe it.
Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
– Jostein Gaarder (Sophie’s World) (via justbesplendid) (via glassandsummer) (via heartwarming) (via grayskymorning) (via cavesoflilith)
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
– Fernando Pessoa (via fuckyeahsolitude) (via cavesoflilith)
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
– Charles Horton Cooley (via cavesoflilith)
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...
– Marilyn Monroe (via normajeanbaker) (via loveyourchaos)
Interesting how people who had so much influence and terror over you, now seem...
– Tahti Syrjala (via cavesoflilith)
Top 10 brain damaging habits.
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1. No breakfast People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration. 2. Overeating It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power. 3. Smoking It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. 4. High sugar...
Solitude is impractical, yet society is fatal.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via corners) (via booklover) (via fuckyeahralphwaldoemerson) (via fuckyeahsolitude)
I am learning how to be alone without being lonely, learning how to be lonely...
– Paul Baribeau (via kari-shma) (via fuckyeahsolitude)
As a matter of self-preservation, he required an enormous amount of space around...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via fuckyeahsolitude)
Art is my life and my life is art.
– Yoko Ono (via cavesoflilith)