“ The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence. ”
Gertrude Stein, Midnight in Paris
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“ Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ”
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via youveescaped)
“ That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pavorst)
“ Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart. ”
“ Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir - open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us - guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion - we’d be truly dead. ”
Joss Whedon (via atomos)
“ Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ”
Albert Einstein (via ruineshumaines)
“ Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too.
But it never helps. ”
Lemony Snicket, “Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid” (via quote-book)
“ Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. ”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
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