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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
Albert Camus (via fyp-philosophy)
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Mmm--people! It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.
From Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
Socrates (via fyp-philosophy)
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I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
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I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers upon layers
of clothing
or only our skin -
all I really want is to wake up
not knowing
where I end and you begin.
Beau Taplin
YES. Such cool and creative ornaments in the return of the A section, and such beautiful diction and shaping!
Right and left there are other things happening just as bad -- crazy, horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about -- but the fog is getting thick enough I don't have to watch. And somebody's tugging at my arm. I know already what will happen: somebody'll drag me out of the fog and we'll be back on the ward and there won't be a sign of what went on tonight and if I was fool enough to try and tell anybody about it they'd say, Idiot, you just had a nightmare; things as crazy as a big machine room down in the bowels of a dam where people get cut up by robot workers don't exist.
But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
Chief Bromden's narration from Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
I go through phases. Somedays I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then somedays, I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.
Mary Kate Teske
The irony of this article being shared is painful, but all this technology can be used for good if consumers are educated and demand the integration of human rights in the process which gets technology into our hands.
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie.' I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
Lynn Barber, An Education: My Life Might Have Turned Out Differently if I Had Just Said No
"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."
Veronica A. Shoffstall
You block your dreams when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
When a man has lost all happiness, he is not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
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When you decide to give up the ghost, Everything else follows even in midst of wildest chaos.
Henry Miller - from The Tropic of Cancer (via watchoutforintellect)