January 2010
“Learning to think: in our schools one no longer has any idea of this. Even in...”
– Nietzsche
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
– James Dean (via nakedwords) (via quote-book)
“Only a dead fish goes with the current”
“If you wake up at a different time and in different place, could you wake up as...”
– Fight Club
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“Art is never finished, only abandoned”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“[Philosophy is] transcendental unity of apperception, as the condition of...”
– Kant
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“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and...”
– Nietzsche
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“I want to become immortal and then die.”
– Breathless
Jean Luc Godard
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...”
– John Stuart Mill
“In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media...”
– Brad Holland (via accraze)
Death of the Author by Roland Barthes →
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via splattt-twloha)
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
– Bertrand Russell
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“I traveled to the page where scripture meets fiction.
The paper slept but the...”
– Fanny Howe, excerpted from A Hymn (via hotelnewbabylon)
“My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Will to Power” (via hellnation)
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“As creators we must first destroy.”
– Frederich Nietzsche
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“I am an experimenter and not a theorist. I call a theorist someone who...”
– Michel Foucault. From an interview in 1980. (via nabilhc)
“In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has...”
– A Dream by Jorge Luis Borges (Translated, from the Spanish, by Suzanne Jill Levine.) (via hotelnewbabylon)
“In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has...”
– A Dream by Jorge Luis Borges (Translated, from the Spanish, by Suzanne Jill Levine.) (via hotelnewbabylon)
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“Do we in our time have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the...”
– Martin Heidegger
“When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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An excerpt from Waking Life
A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He’s an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, “I must be insane.” What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes. These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs. Man wants chaos. In fact, he’s gotta have...
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Salvation by Langston Hughes
I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved. It happened like this. There was a big revival at my Auntie Reed’s church. Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing, praying, and shouting, and some very hardened sinners had been brought to Christ, and the membership of the church had grown by leaps and bounds. Then just before the revival ended,...
“Borders are jagged; every island is proof.
Straight lines on a map are...”
– Kei Miller, The Broken (II) V, from There Is an Anger that Moves (via hotelnewbabylon)
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“welcome to the end of the thought process”
– House MD
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