December 2010
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Camus Notebook Entries, 1935-1942
When I was young, I expected people to give me more than they could — continuous friendship, permanent emotion. Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give — a silent companionship.
Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.
Strange: inability to be alone, inability not to be alone. One accepts...
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“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via technipol)
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“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own...”
– Anton Chekhov (via miror)
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by Franz Wright
How does one go about dying? Who on earth is going to teach me – The world is filled with people who have never died.
(via tamburina)
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“Suppose a researcher were to tap you on the shoulder and ask you to write down...”
– Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender (via i-am-the-lighthouse)
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“Each man’s life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the...”
– Hermann Hesse (via thechocolatebrigade)
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The estimated serotonin levels of people falling in love were observed to drop to levels found in patients with OCD. Brain scan investigations of individuals who professed to be “truly, madly, deeply” in love showed activity in several structures in common with in the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which could explain why people experiencing infatuation cannot think of anyone else....
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“The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every...”
– Charlotte Wilson (via revolutionnow)
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“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”
– Vivien Leigh
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The north wind whips by Víctor Terán
The north wind whips through, in the streets papers and leaves are chased with resentment. Houses moan, dogs curl into balls. There is something in the afternoon’s finger, a catfish spine, a rusty nail. Someone unthinkingly smoked cigarettes in heaven, left it overcast, listless. Here, at ground level, no one could take their shadow for a walk, sheltered in their...
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“Today millions of young women who benefit from the struggles of their mothers...”
– Isabel Allende (via changeis)
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Jesus, The Velvet Underground (via...
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“There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
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“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, ‘You’re very good at lying.’ ‘Do I look like a liar?’ ‘You look like you enjoy lying to women,’ said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.”
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“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of...”
– Paulo Freire (via bradicalmang, revolutionnow, fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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The Only Mistake, Joy Division (via laaaurita)
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“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than...”
– Willa Cather
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