February 2012
60 posts
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“Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of...”
– Giovanni Papini, The Failure
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“In many pathetic verses—wretched things written both in Italian and...”
– Giovanni Papini, The Failure
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“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute...”
– Guy de Maupassant, French writer (1850-1893)
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“Is there an objective criterion for evaluating suffering? Who can say with...”
– Emil Cioran, The Passion for the Absurd
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“When I am…completely myself, entirely alone …my ideas flow best and...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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“I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will...”
– A suicide note from a victim who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge
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Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in E Minor
“I wish...
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“Whatever can be reached purely by means of the intellect, I have reached; it now...”
– György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (1885-1971)
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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep,...”
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
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“When I say that I do not believe in my emotions, I
don’t mean that I don’t have...”
– Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note
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“I apologize to everything that I cannot be everywhere.
I apologize to everyone...”
– Wisława Szymborska, Under a Certain Little Star
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“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God.”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
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“Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.”
– Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher (1930-2004)
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“Everything, to me, has become it’s very reverse. The fresh and tender leaves on the trees look like tongues of fire. Nights appear as dreadful as the night of final dissolution and the moon scorches like the sun. Beds of lotuses are like so many spears planted on the ground while rain clouds pour boiling oil. Those that were friendly before have now become tormenting. The cool, soft, and...
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“Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air...”
– Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice (The Cry of the 14th AEthyr)
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“I ought to have a special hell for my anger, a hell for my pride, - and a hell...”
– Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (1873)
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“Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits....”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977)
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
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“I write my suffering less and less yet it grows all the stronger, shifting to...”
– Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary (December 4, 1978)
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“Where I tread, I trample corpses,
In my brain, poison thoughts do flow,
With...”
– Nietzsche, After a Nocturnal Thunderstorm (1871)
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“I’ll always be the one who wasn’t born for that;
I’ll always...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Tobacco Shop (1928)
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“There he held the mirror of Life, upside-down. I looked into it and saw myself....”
– Renzo Novatore, A Life (1920)
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“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for...”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Mist (1914)
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“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds…houses and whole districts...”
– Eugene Ionesco, The Killer (1958)
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“Don’t come and bore me with talk about other worlds—a calmer, more...”
– Giovanni Papini, The Failure
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts, British philosopher (1915-1973)
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“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino
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“The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks...”
– Giovanni Papini, Un uomo finito (The Failure) 1912
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“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. I know the end of us all is...”
– Giovanni Papini, Un uomo finito (The Failure) 1912
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“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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“Deep within this ironical and disappointed being of mine there is a child...”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime (1821-1881)
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“All life is the shadow of a smoke-wreath, a gesture in the empty air, a...”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime (1821-1881)
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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble...”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, Chapter XXI
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“The kingdom of Shadow and Death is my kingdom.
I howl desperately, but in...”
– Renzo Novatore, Spiritual Perversity (1920)
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“Now I am the reckless maniacal swimmer lost in the murky waves of Life. I am the...”
– Renzo Novatore, Spiritual Perversity (1920)
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“I hear the somber roar of two distinct sounds.
The weeping of Life and the...”
– Renzo Novatore, Spiritual Perversity (1920)
“Many geniuses were partially insane, if not wholly insane; many geniuses lived...”
– L. James Hammond, Conversations With Great Thinkers
“Because of their narcissism, geniuses are often solitary and friendless. “I have...”
– L. James Hammond, Conversations With Great Thinkers
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“Altogether the whole setting of my early life is so cloaked in darkest...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Diary (1848)