January 2012
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In sleep she seem’d to walk forlorn,
Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed...
– Lord Tennyson, Mariana
December 2011
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A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly toward an...
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo, The Hagakure
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I cool with the snow my burning jowl,
And on to the devil my wretched soul I...
– Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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After all, we are only trees and is probably written in some crook or other of...
– Antonin Artaud, On Suicide
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It was at such moments that he was most attracted by her, when her charming,...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
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From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he...
– Albert Camus (quoting Nietzsche), The Rebel
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arielnietzsche asked: "I see the glass half full, but filled with poison." -Woody Allen. I LOVE YOUR BLOG =) Followed. <3
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Thinks’t thou existence doth depend on time?
It doth; but actions are our...
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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dahype asked: have you seen last days by gus van sandt ? if yes what did you think ?
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virevoltant asked: "Now a forest fenced becomes backyards - Like songs are born from sound - And an apple fell and it taught us all - We are chained here to the ground - So, I mean, here we go, but there ain't no escape - These streets are just dead ends - So I won't ever be happy again" Conor Oberst
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aerobe asked: I've been following you for a while now and yours are some of the most consistently interesting posts on my dashboard. Thanks especially for keeping them continental fellas on my neglectful analytic radar.
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dgrisa asked: go poke around my archive/page see if anything works for reblog.... Or don't, I don't really give a shit one way or the other. Your submit link is broken by the way.
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They were waiting for nothing, they had all they wanted. It must be rather grim...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Reprieve
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Anonymous asked: there is no money, i have to find a job and new flat because my flatmate ratted me to the landlord about smoking weed, i received suspected academic offence at the university and couldn't transfer to the course i wanted so probably be thrown out or take a study break, there is a cat in the house i live in which i must hide from the landlord but possibly won't get back my deposit in any...
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Anonymous asked: do you think there are people like me over there: in a foreign country, without family and friends, on a christmas who haven't received any presents AT ALL?
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My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead Christmas trees of the world.
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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Anonymous asked: What are your plans for the holiday? :)
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just...
– Orson Welles (From Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming)
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
– Douglas Coupland
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Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a...
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Then, what is life? I cried.
– Percey Shelley, The Triumph of Life
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Every battle with death is lost before it begins. The splendour of the battle...
– Paul-Louis Landsberg
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nineteentwentyeight asked: Funereal is exactly how I would describe christmas, for a couple of reasons. I'm glad to hear someone else freely admit their contempt for the holidays.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a...
– Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal
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Anonymous asked: Who is your favorite film director?
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God knows ‘twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down, ...
– Alan Seeger, I Have a Rendezvous with Death