February 2011
270 posts
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“That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
– Samuel Beckett
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it...”
– Woody Allen
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but...”
– Albert Camus
January 2011
320 posts
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all...”
– John Steinbeck
“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will...”
– T. S. Eliot, From The Waste Land
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“Death followed by eternity…the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.”
– Tom Stoppard
“I want to pray, but I can only think.”
– Robert Bresson, Une femme douce, 1969
Sometimes it’s nothing to believe in...
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a...”
– W.C. Fields
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“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
– Albert Camus
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus
“Disappointment will make us conversant with a nobler part of our nature, chasten...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Journals (1841)
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“I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
kristenkris10 asked: your blog is just fascinating. i feel quite honored to have stumbled upon it. as i sit pathetically alone in my room on a sunday morning at 2:32 am, this is exactly what my soul has asked for. thanks. :)
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus
“Hence we don’t want to improve ourselves or to be bettered, for we should first...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
“During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The...”
– Donald Draper
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“Life is occupied both in perpetuating itself and surpassing itself; if it does...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
– Albert Camus
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without...”
– Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus: An Absurd Reasoning
“Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
…and they have escaped the weight of...
“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out my memory things I had...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– from The Captain is Out to Lunch… by Charles Bukowski
“You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the...”
– Roger Sterling
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
she looked sad.
The following is an excerpt of The Stranger by Albert Camus. I was reminded of it when I read the second excerpt which is from Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
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I told Marie all about the old man and she laughed. She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked...
why not try it all, if you only remember it...