Quotes

[klangspiel]

We have within us on our temperate slope a series of songs which accompany us, wings connecting our relaxed breathing to our highest fevers. Pieces almost banal, mild in their coloring, recessed in their contour, whose fabric bears nevertheless a tiny wound. Anyone may set an origin and an end to this questionable redness.

In a time when death, docile to fake sorcerers, sullies the noblest possibilities, we do not hesitate to set free every instant at our disposal. Or better, let us turn to the ipomea, this bindweed which the ultimate night hour refines and half opens, but which noontime condems to closure. It would be unthinkable that the quietude, on whose reverse side it welcomes us precariously, should not be that which we had desired, for our noonday repose.

-- René Char

[Faust]

"It's like an instinct with women," she said. "You communicate to them what you have to have and right away they tell you they've got exactly what you need, although they never even heard of it until just now. They're not even necessarily lying. They just have an instinct that they can supply everything that a man can ask for, and they're ready to take on any size or shape or type of man. That's what they're like. So you go around looking for a woman like yourself. There ain't no such animal. But the girls tell you, 'Your search is ended. Stop here. I'm it.' Then you award the contract. Of course nobody can deliver and everybody gets sore as hell."

Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

[MASUGNEN]

"The only thing I regret is that I changed my whisky to gin."

Who – possibly Frank Sinatra or Cary Grant or someone likewise – said that as his last words?

[swami]

How many wives did he have again?
Saul Bellow ie

[todestrieb]

Two quotes by Lev Shestov.

"Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They are not satisfied with simply despising and condemning their neighbour themselves, they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme: that is, that all men should rise as one against the condemned, and that even the offender's own conscience shall be against him. Then only are they fully satisfied and reassured. Nothing on earth but morality could lead to such wonderful results."

"The obscure streets of life do not offer the conveniences of the central thoroughfares: no electric light, no gas, not even a kerosene lamp-bracket. There are no pavements: the traveller has to fumble his way in the dark. If he needs a light, he must wait for a thunderbolt, or else, primitive-wise, knock a spark out of a stone. In a glimpse will appear unfamiliar outlines; and then, what he has taken in he must try to remember, no matter whether the impression was right or false. For he will not easily get another light, except he run his head against a wall, and see sparks that way. What can a wretched pedestrian gather under such circumstances? How can we expect a clear account from him whose curiosity (let us suppose his curiosity so strong) led him to grope his way among the outskirts of life? Why should we try to compare his records with those of the travellers through brilliant streets?"

[interest1]

^^

Two quotes by Lev Shestov.

"Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind...

.............That's why they'll never understand how:

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[Faust]

/\ I'll take the latter, but could do without the former.

[MASUGNEN]

I agree with interest1:

»Morals are for people lacking character.«

Albert Camus.

[swami]

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"
we all know this this one

[swami]

And in the same vein..

"And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be"
Pink Floyd Breathe

[interest1]

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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. –Henry Miller

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[mass]

i don't run cuz i get tired and i don't lift weights because they're heavy
-sir charles

love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

[mass]

rip sace

[endorphinz]

"Religion is for those who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it."

---Muriel Strode

[interest1]

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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do...–Voltaire

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