December 2011
47 posts
Drunk girls cause a couple of heart attacks
Henceforth, my dear philosophers, let us be on guard against the dangerous old...
– Nietzsche
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When I’m lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death and...
– Morrissey
The dead man lay, as dead men always lie, in a specially heavy way, his rigid...
– Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
Merry Christmas… and all that stuff.
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No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You’re...
– Bret Easton Ellis “The Rules of Attraction”
Je ne suis pas sage
Je suis très cruelle
Mais aucun homme n’enrage
Parce que je suis très belle
I’m killing myself because you did not love me. Because I did not love...
– The Fire Within (1963)
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Be Drunk
You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the
only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks
your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually
drunk.
But on what?Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be
drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of
a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your...
L’amour c’est comme une cigarette
RIP Christopher Hitchens
Remember me as a time of day.
I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world...
– Jean-Paul Sartre “Being and Nothingness”
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Oh sweet nuthin’
She ain’t got nothing at all
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the...
– Federico Fellini
Play Mozart in memory of me.
– Frédéric Chopin
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Yes, there’s love if you want it.
I am condemned to be free.
– Jean-Paul Sartre “Being and Nothingness”
And tomorrow morning, I’ll be sober but you’ll still be beautiful.
For Jane: With All the Love I Had, Which Was Not...
I pick up the skirt,
I pick up the sparkling beads
in black,
this thing that moved once
around flesh,
and I call God a liar,
I say anything that moved
like that
or knew
my name
could never die
in the common verity of dying,
and I pick
up her lovely
dress,
all her loveliness gone,
and I speak to all the gods,
Jewish gods, Christ-gods,
chips of blinking things,
idols, pills,...
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Kill a man and you’re a murderer. Kill thousands and you’re a...
– Masculin Féminin (1966)
So many great people are bad people.
I’m sick of the fact that the concept of “freedom of choice”...
– Levni Yilmaz
‘Making music’ is just making music and that’s where it ends....
– Richard D. James (Aphex Twin)