milkweed
“It happens to you, doesn’t it? Hatred for the world, which will very cheerfully carry on without you.”
—Vladimir Nabokov
April 2010
24 posts
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.”
—Ingrid Bergman
“The resilience life demands of us: how many times we have to overcome despair, assemble arguments for hope, find the courage to continue.”
—Alain de Botton
Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National
“Bloodbuzz Ohio” - The National
The floors are falling out from everybody I know
“To try to discover what our gifts are - then to align them with something the world might need - and pay for. A lifetime’s struggle.”
—Alain de Botton
“Beauty alone is not immortal.
It is the response, a language of cyphers,
notes, and strokes riding off on a cloud charger—
the bruised humps of magnificent whales.” —Patti Smith
It is the response, a language of cyphers,
notes, and strokes riding off on a cloud charger—
the bruised humps of magnificent whales.” —Patti Smith
King of Spain
The Tallest Man On Earth
“King of Spain” - The Tallest Man On Earth
“No one can be alone, even one’s own body is not “alone”, it is a vast aggregate of smaller living units, it is a phantom universe in itself.”
—Jack Kerouac
“Old photographs are very deceiving. They give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it’s not true. The person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognize him or herself in us. Who’s that looking at me so sadly, he or she would say.”
—José Saramago
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche