Quotes

[swami]

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others." from The Life and Work of Martha Graham

[8bpc]

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre

[galia]

Toutes les chances d'erreur. Pire encore, toutes les chances de mauvais goût, de facilité vulgaire, sont avec celui qui hait.
Paul Valery

(Every chance of mistake. Worse even, every chance of bad taste, of vulgar facility, is with he who hates)


Nul ne meurt avant son heure. Ce que vous laissez de temps n'était non plus vôtre que celui qui s'est passé avant votre naissance... Où que finisse votre vie, elle y est toute.
Montaigne
(No one dies before their time. Whatever time you leave was no more yours that the time that passed before you were born... Wherever your life ends, it is there entirely.)


sorry for my wonky translations, I'm kind of exhausted

[Faust]

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre

This means he lost that illusion, since he is conscious of it. So, why didn't he follow through with Camus' theory of the absurdity of life and kill himself then?

Sartre is the original hipster - a bourgeois desperately trying to prove he isn't one.

[Amir]

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[JoniF]

This means he lost that illusion, since he is conscious of it. So, why didn't he follow through with Camus' theory of the absurdity of life and kill himself then?

Sartre is the original hipster - a bourgeois desperately trying to prove he isn't one.

At least he was the best of his kind!

[todestrieb]

The irony is that hating on Sartre is probably the most "bourgeois" or Hipster-privy thing to do these days. They have caught on, y'know?

If you have to pick a French intellectual, past and present, to hate on, may I recommend this guy below? He is the arch-Hipster. Nothing would give me more satisfaction than to see his entrails hang out to dry, with savage vultures having a field day, but that's just me

[MoFiya]

"Wir sind zu einem Leben verurteilt, und das heißt lebenslänglich, für ein oder für viele Verbrechen, wer weiß?, die wir nicht begangen haben oder die wir wieder begehen, für andere andere nach uns. Wir haben uns selber nicht aufgerufen, wir waren auf einmal da und im Augenblick auch schon verantwortlich gemacht. Wir sind widerstandsfähig geworden, uns kann nichts mehr umwerfen, wir hängen nicht mehr am Leben, aber wir verschleudern es auch nicht zu billig, hatte ich sagen wollen, aber ich hatte das nicht gesagt. Manchmal erheben wir alle unseren Kopf und glauben, die Wahrheit oder die scheinbare Wahrheit sagen zu müssen und ziehen ihn wieder ein. Das ist alles."

Thomas Bernhard - Der Keller. Eine Entziehung

... sorry for German quote. Some fellows might understand :> But I do not like translating such quotes because of the beauty of the language..

[8bpc]

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.
Ojibwe Saying

[Fade to Black]

"Fatigue is such a luxury these days." - Don DeLillo, Americana (1971)

[MoFiya]

As a word, love fails.

- Mark Gluth

Thanks for this one...

[Faust]

In the crowd the individual feels that he is transcending the limits of his own person. He has a sense of relief, for the distances are removed which used to throw him back on himself and shut him in. With the lifting of these burdens of distance he feels free; his freedom is the crossing of these boundaries.

Elias Canetti - Crowds and Power

[interest1]

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Sweet life, if life were stronger,
Earth clear of years that wrong her,
Then two things might live longer,
...Two sweeter things than they;
Delight, the rootless flower,
And love, the bloomless bower;
Delight that lives an hour,
...And love that lives a day.

This one thing once worth giving
Life gave, and seemed worth living;
Sin sweet beyond forgiving
...And brief beyond regret:
To laugh and love together
And weave with foam and feather
And wind and words the tether
...Our memories play with yet.

Ah, one thing worth beginning,
One thread in life worth spinning,
Ah sweet, one sin worth sinning,
...With all the whole soul's will;
To lull you till one stilled you,
To kiss you till one killed you,
To feed you till one filled you,
...Sweet lips, if love could fill.



Excerpt from Before Dawn - Poems and Ballads / Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1866


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[MASUGNEN]

Yohji Yamamoto

I inject anger into everything I create.

This to me is an incomprehensible statement.

[interest1]

Yohji Yamamoto

I inject anger into everything I create.

This to me is an incomprehensible statement.

Do I merely facepalm, or straight-up shoot myself in the face?

Decisions, decisions...

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