August 2011
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“What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to...”
– -Søren Kierkegaard, Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund August 31 1835
aka: the dilemma of my life right now (and the past 3 years), as told by my favorite philosopher
September 2010
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August 2010
16 posts
“It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite- only a sense of...”
– Thoreau
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So I have this thing for guitar-driven music which was amplified by about 1,001 when I was living in Barcelona. My students took me out to a lot of shows, most of which were bossa nova, brasileño, and flamenco. One night in early March, we were drinking with one of the guys after his set when he asked if I’d heard of these two crazy...
“Because what I want is to live, and to be happy. Neither, to my mind, is...”
– Albert Camus | Caligula
there’s something about this city that makes me want different things
—things that won’t help anyone, or better anything
— things i don’t at all need.
what is it with you, los angeles, that somehow brings out the worst in me?
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“We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more...”
– Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale
July 2010
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“…the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I...”
– Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
“Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
– Clarice Lispector | The Hour of the Star
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– Don Delillo | White Noise
“Even after all this time
the Sun never says
to the Earth, “you owe me.”
...”
– Hafiz (via icestormis) (via pourdevrai)
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Watch An awesome montage featuring South African children naming their favorite World Cup players & Golden Boot contenders <3
“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things...”
– Joanne Harris, The Girl With No Shadow | via bienenkiste }
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“Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska | via loveisaccidental }
About the post below:
I just realized that the word “British” is spelled incorrectly. This is rather unsettling. Maaaaan.
Watch { ‘animal’ - neon trees } happy summer song
“He who fights the monsters might take care lest he become one…”
– f. nietzsche
June 2010
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