Depression Party

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Thu, 31 May 2012 03:37:00 -0600

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Mon, 28 May 2012 17:20:55 -0600

"The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers..."

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:00 -0600

“The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"He had the weak pulse, the hoarse breathing, and the pale perspiration of a dying man. But his..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:28:42 -0600

“He had the weak pulse, the hoarse breathing, and the pale perspiration of a dying man. But his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:31:20 -0600

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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole!

We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. So it is that in our good days we are all unconscious of the evil Fate may have presently in store for us—sickness, poverty, mutilation, loss of sight or reason.

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- Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write Love is so short and oblivion...

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:31:49 -0600

Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write

Love is so short and oblivion so long

Fyodor Khitruk, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Day of...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:11:45 -0600

Fyodor Khitruk, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Day of Concern (Винни-Пух и день забот, 1972)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See a Darkness

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:31:16 -0600

Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I See a Darkness

"He knew himself a villain—but he deem’d The rest no better than the thing he seem’d"

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:31:12 -0600

“He knew himself a villain—but he deem’d
The rest no better than the thing he seem’d”

- Lord Byron, The Corsair

"We were happy; we were unhappy; we were happy enough. Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:45:19 -0600

“We were happy; we were unhappy; we were happy enough. Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? I have it now; she had it earlier. After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living?”

- Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

Fyodor Khitruk, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Day of Concern...

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:13:03 -0600

Fyodor Khitruk, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Day of Concern (Винни-Пух и день забот, 1972)

Alone

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:31:19 -0600

I am alone, in spite of love,
In spite of all I take and give—
In spite of all your tenderness,
Sometimes I am not glad to live.

I am alone, as though I stood
On the highest peak of the tired gray world,
About me only swirling snow,
Above me, endless space unfurled;

With earth hidden and heaven hidden,
And only my own spirit’s pride
To keep me from the peace of those
Who are not lonely, having died.

Sara Teasdale

"The sign of doom is written on your brows—how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:31:26 -0600

“The sign of doom is written on your brows—how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution. Know yourselves—be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”

- Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

Louis Raemaekers, To Your Health, Civilization! (1916)

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:31:22 -0600

Louis Raemaekers, To Your Health, Civilization! (1916)

The Velvet Underground — Stephanie Says

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:12:41 -0600

The Velvet Underground — Stephanie Says

John Donne

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:31:05 -0600

John Donne

"And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of..."

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:30:53 -0600

“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage… Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”

- Vincent Van Gogh, letter to his brother Theo, July 1880

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Sat, 12 May 2012 18:31:30 -0600

"The torment of disappointed hope becomes a brutality to myself."

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:31:34 -0600

“The torment of disappointed hope becomes a brutality to myself.”

- Delmore Schwartz

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Thu, 10 May 2012 18:31:08 -0600