― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.”
― Marty Rubin
― Marty Rubin
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“Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly
unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to
grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist,
proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.”
― Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
― Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
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“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can
affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has
any importance.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
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“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled
and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and
domination of peoples and nature.”
― Cornel West
― Cornel West
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“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen
― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time
immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the
recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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"I love with such ferocity that it kills me when
the object of my love shows by a phrase that he can escape. He escapes,
and I am left clutching at a string that slips in and out among the
leaves on the tree-tops. I do not understand phrases."
- Virginia Woolf, from The Waves ponder
"Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom.
The first is being a bore."
- Jean Baudrillard
The first is being a bore."
ars poetica
"I cannot survive your eyes
when they are scarred with a need
for some lesser form of love."
- Jack Kerouac, from Collected Poems
when they are scarred with a need
for some lesser form of love."
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices…"
- William James
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— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, “A Very Easy Death”
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"Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way."
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”
— Catherine Breillat
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"If you’re not haunted
by something, as by a
dream, a vision, or
a memory, which are
involuntary, you’re not
interested or even involved."
- Jack Kerouac, from Book Of Sketches
by something, as by a
dream, a vision, or
a memory, which are
involuntary, you’re not
interested or even involved."
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"My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book Of Hours quoth the madman
"I don’t object to opening the heart, but I do object to finding it empty."
- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entryars poetica
"The trouble with me is that
outside my mind it seems
the world hasn’t got no
ass."
- Jack Kerouac, from Book Of Sketches
outside my mind it seems
the world hasn’t got no
ass."
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"‘I suppose,’ he said to himself, ‘I
have lived too intensely, I seem to have had the stars and moon and
everything else for guests, and now they’ve gone my house is
weak.’ ‘Surely,’ he told himself, ‘I have drunk life too hot, and
it has hurt my cup. My soul seems to leak out — I am half here, half
gone away. That’s why I understand the trees and the night so
painfully.’ ‘I suppose,’ he said to himself for the last time, ‘I suppose living too intensely kills you, more or less.’"
- D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works
ars poetica
"kisses & long afternoons
of gossip in the kitchen
as the sun gets red —"
- Jack Kerouac, from Book Of Sketches
of gossip in the kitchen
as the sun gets red —"
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"You make me feel — as if I were loose, and a long way off from myself…"
- D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works
ars poetica
— Jane Kenyon, from “Taking Down the Tree,”
ars poetica
Isn’t it time to collect all those words together
words left idle like the leaves of your life?
words left idle like the leaves of your life?
— Muhammad Habiby, “Traces Remaining,”
the play's the thing
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene vi
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"Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of
thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and
installing them as masters.
Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant."
Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant."
— Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
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— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, 24
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"Every profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter may hurt his vanity, but the former his heart, his sympathy, which always says: ‘Alas, why do you want to have as hard a time as I did?’"
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 290
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"More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today; his enemy was ever the ideal of today.
So far all these extraordinary furtherers of man whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 212
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Condemn it later on, if you like; but first it had its passionate way of loving itself and lacerating itself, against which future judgements are of no avail.
It had its taste which it tasted alone and which is as incomparable, as irremediable, as the taste of wine in our mouths.“
Writing for One’s Age, What is Literature? And Other Essays, Jean-Paul Sartre
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— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 279
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“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
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“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
― Blaise Pascal
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“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”
― Kahlil Gibran
― Kahlil Gibran
ars poetica
“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
It was love lashed by its own self that spoke.
It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems
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