βIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.β
- George Orwell.
- George Orwell.
"I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life.
My only real concern has been my inner life."
Fernando Pessoa.
My only real concern has been my inner life."
Fernando Pessoa.
"I belong to quick,
futile moments of intense feeling.
Yes, I belong to moments.
Not to people."
Virginia Woolf.
futile moments of intense feeling.
Yes, I belong to moments.
Not to people."
Virginia Woolf.
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
- Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf
I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live.
I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be.
Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry.
The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.
Fernando Pessoa.
I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be.
Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry.
The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.
Fernando Pessoa.
Clouds ...
I exist unconsciously and I'll die unwillingly.
I am the interval between what I am and what I am not, between what I dream and what life has made for me, the abstract, carnal halfway-house between things, like myself, that are nothing. Clouds..."
Fernando Pessoa
I exist unconsciously and I'll die unwillingly.
I am the interval between what I am and what I am not, between what I dream and what life has made for me, the abstract, carnal halfway-house between things, like myself, that are nothing. Clouds..."
Fernando Pessoa
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face - there's nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face.
And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
- Fernando Pessoa.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face.
And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
- Fernando Pessoa.
True love is two people inspiring each other to live.
Recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it.
Life is suffering. It is hard.
The world is cursed.
But still, you find reasons to keep living.
- Hayao Miyazaki.
Recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it.
Life is suffering. It is hard.
The world is cursed.
But still, you find reasons to keep living.
- Hayao Miyazaki.
βModern life is so thin and shallow and fake.
I look forward to when developers go bankrupt,
the world gets poorer and wild grasses take over.β
β Hayao Miyazaki
I look forward to when developers go bankrupt,
the world gets poorer and wild grasses take over.β
β Hayao Miyazaki
βI wasnβt meant for reality, but life came and found me.β
- Fernando Pessoa.
- Fernando Pessoa.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
- Albert Camus.
So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
- Albert Camus.
"We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey."
- Leonard Cohen.
- Leonard Cohen.
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"The most important thing you do every day you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."
"Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus.
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"The most important thing you do every day you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
"We only know of one duty, and that is to love."
"Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus.
"You will never be able to
experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
- Albert Camus.
experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
- Albert Camus.
No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
- David Foster Wallace.
- David Foster Wallace.
I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed,
that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Ocean Vuong.
that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Ocean Vuong.
"Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living.
It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories".
It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories".