“I worshipped the Invisible alone.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni,”
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“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”
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Albert Camus, “Three Interviews”, Lyrical and Critical Essays (via philosophybits)
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“Art is a radical act. Joy is a radical act.This is how we keep fighting. This is how we survive.”
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Rebecca Makkai, “The World’s on Fire. Can We Still Talk About Books?”, pub. in Electric Lit
“𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, I told myself. 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.”
— Margaret Atwood, from “The Penelopiad,” written c. October 2005
“I must (am condemned to) press onward to the real core of my existence—”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Carl von Gersdorff c. December 1887 (via violentwavesofemotion)
self love ain’t just bubble baths & face masks it’s owning up to your shit , accepting your flaws , encouraging yourself to do better.
“Mundus vulti decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.”
— Walter Kaufmann
“I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.”
— Jennifer Willoughby, from “The Sun is Still a Part of Me” in Beautiful Zero (via pigmenting)