May 2013
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via man-of-prose)
“Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in...”
– Nietzsche (via man-of-prose)
“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it;...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (via man-of-prose)
“we have come
so far
and gone
nowhere.
we have lived
so long
and
hardly...”
– Charles Bukowski. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
– Voltaire (via man-of-prose)
“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the...”
– Woody Allen (via man-of-prose)
“I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I...”
– Thought Catalog (via swimmingpoolforants)
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding...”
– Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart’s souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomo (via arpeggia)
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
– Jack Gilbert (via glorioussundaymornings)
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed...”
– George Orwell (via man-of-prose)
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I...”
– Walt Whitman (via up-dharma-down)
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this...”
– Hugh Laurie (via prettypeachpeonies)
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner...”
– T.H. White, The Once and Future King (via man-of-prose)
“Every question is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from...”
– Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (via sisyphean-revolt)
“To want not to think in terms of good and evil is to want not to think in terms...”
– Foucault, talk show interview (via whentherewerebicycles)
“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it’s only because in my dream I’m a...”
– Pablo Neruda (via man-of-prose)
“In your absence, you are everywhere.”
– Six Word Story. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
Literary Lust: Sartre's eulogy to Albert Camus →
literarylust:
Tribute to Albert Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
Six months ago, even yesterday, people wondered: “What is he going to do?” Temporarily, torn by contradictions that must be respected, he had chosen silence. But he was one of those rare men we can well afford to wait for, because they are slow to…
coffeecartography:
Foucault is often misquoted on this. He did not say, “Where there is power there is resistance.” He actually said, “Where there is power, there is resistance and yet this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.” We can’t oversimplify this delicate point… even resistance exists in a messy plain for Foucault.
Sartre’s eulogy to Albert Camus
doculinks:
He and I had quarreled. A quarrel doesn’t matter — even if those who quarrel never see each other again — just another way of living together without losing sight of one another in the narrow little world that is allotted us.
so touching.
“Debbie Downer and Doubty Doubter had a love-child. This child was Descartes.”
– Husserl, Logical Investigations (via petitebourgeoisacademicpostmarx)
“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who...”
– David Levithan (via a-quiet-old-soul)
“I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not...”
– Franz Kafka (via man-of-prose)
people on the internet: your music taste is perfection
people in real life: wtf is this shit
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no...”
– Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918, on the role of scientific culture in modern society – timeless, remarkably timely read.
Pair with how ignorance drives science.
(via explore-blog)
“Fall if you will, but rise you must.”
– James Joyce (via theirmiddlechild)
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via man-of-prose)
“This is all we need. Couple of smokes, a cup of coffee and a little bit of...”
– Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites (1994) 