“While he wept, the light grew brighter and brighter in his mind. An extraordinary light, a light at once ravishing and terrible… all returned and appeared to him, clearly, but in a light that he had never seen before… There was, however, a softened light upon that life and upon that soul. It seemed to him that he was looking upon Satan by the light of Paradise.”
— Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (via chaosophia)
May 2011
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
Charles Bukowski
1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.
2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.
3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.
4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Readers May Be Divided into Four Classes
“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”
—Jude 1:6, KJV
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
—John Irving (via bloodisthenewblackk)
blank faces: Hangover →
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- One Star Hangover:
No pain. No real feeling of illness. Your sleep last night was a mere disco nap, which has given you a whole lot of misplaced energy. Be glad that you are able to function relatively well. However, you are still parched. You can drink 10 sodas and still feel this way. You…
i was lying in a bed for hours waiting for a sun to go away
“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.”
—Massimo Vingelli - (via thelobotomy)
“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
—Tyler Durden (‘Fight Club’)
