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Don’t listen to me; my heart’s been broken. I don’t see anything objectively. I know myself; I’ve learned to hear like a psychiatrist. When I speak passionately, That’s when I’m least to be trusted. It’s very sad, really: all my life I’ve been praised for my intelligence, my posers of language, of insight– In the end they’re wasted–
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If you want the truth, you have to close yourself to the...
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via obsoletedesolate)
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tamburina:
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, and then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction. It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying...
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The Street
goodpoetry:
Here is a long and silent street. I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise, and I walk blind, my feet trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves. Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves: if I slow down, he slows; if I run, he runs I turn: nobody. Everything dark and doorless, only my steps aware of me, I turning and turning among these corners which lead forever...
You’ve been trained to speak the language of mundane.
I will not.
“I believe you have to be born a director. It’s like a child’s adventure: you...”
– Sergei Parajanov
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“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger (via vilis, cockmouth)
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like...”
– Rumi (via slychedelic)
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Kalopsia, noun: the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are.
expose:
More and more frequently the edges of me dissolve and I become a wish to assimilate the world, including you, if possible through the skin like a cool plant’s tricks with oxygen and live by a harmless green burning. I would not consume you or ever finish, you would still be there surrounding me, complete as the air. Unfortunately I don’t have leaves. Instead I have eyes and teeth and...
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I wish I could post stills of 2001: A Space Odyssey on Blu-Ray. Wow.
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