Quotes

[Acéphale]

The essence of disease is as dark as the essence of life
- Novalis

Truth needs two faces: one for our trip there, the other for our return
- René Char

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

The union of dark cliffs, pink floors, and
pale green shrubbery was beautiful to eyes
sated with months of sunlight and sooty shadow.
When evening came, the declining sun crimsoned
one side of the valley with its glow, leaving the
other in purple gloom.

- T.E Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom(1922)

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

I'll send (to the country) my clothed
body .... For I myself am meanwhile lying
in my bed, smoothly covered over with
the yellow-brown blanket ...

- Franz Kafka Wedding Preparations in the Country(1907-08)

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

The flesh is sad - and I've read every book.
O to escape - to get away! Birds look
as though they're drunk for unknown spray and skies.
No ancient gardens mirrored in the eyes,
nothing can hold this heart steeped in the sea -
not my lamp's desolate luminosity
nor the blank paper guarded by its white
nor the young wife feeding her child, O night!
Away! You steamer with your swaying helm,
raise anchor for some more exotic realm!
Ennui, crushed down by cruel hopes, still relies
on handkerchiefs' definitive goodbyes!
Is this the kind of squall-inviting mast
that storm-winds buckle above shipwrecks cast
away - no mast, no islets flourishing?...
Still, my soul, listen to the sailors sing!

- Stéphane Mallarmé Sea Breeze(1864)

[nekroterrorist]

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? " - Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Upon his coarse eyelashes the eyelids sagged down
in tired folds, through which, from the overhead sun,
a red light glittered into his eye-sockets and made them
look like fiery pits in which the man was slowly burning.

- T.E Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom(1922)

[interest1]

If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best.

MM .(no, not Martin Margiela, hehe – though eerily fitting.. credit goes to Marilyn Monroe on this one!)
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[Acéphale]

We dream of voyaging across the universe. Isn't the universe, then, in us? We do not know the depths of our mind. Toward the interior goes the mysterious road. Eternity with its worlds, past and future, is in us.

- Novalis

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

I'm not some sort of Spinoza to jump around
doing entrechats.

- Anton Chekhov The Wedding(1889)

[tituspullo]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

[ES3K]

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

this one touched me deeply. so beautiful.
thank you.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand
years is true, as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree
of life; and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite and corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this
I shall do by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary
and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

- William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell(1793)

[Teazer]

The essence of disease is as dark as the essence of life
- Novalis

Truth needs two faces: one for our trip there, the other for our return
- René Char

René Char, great.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Overcome by these perspectives Murphy fell
forward on his face in the grass, beside those
biscuits of which it could be said as truly as of
the stars, that one differed from another, but of
which he could not partake in their fullness until
he had learnt not to prefer any one to any other.

- Samuel Beckett Murphy(1938)

[Acid, Bitter and Sad]

Italo Calvino quote

Q, where's that taken from?