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Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are most important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacements never goes well. It’s all very painful—as painful as actually being cut with a knife.

~   Haruki Murakami, 1Q84  (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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05.31.12 /07:55/♥ 709

We are remembered for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do.

~   Chuck Klosterman (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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08.14.11 /20:33/♥ 29

Psychedelics are not illegal because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out the first story window, psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve phonic structures and culturally laid down novels of behavior and information processing, they open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

~   Terence McKenna (via atomos)
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08.01.11 /12:00/♥ 109

tamburina:

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

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04.29.11 /02:53/♥ 96

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

~   Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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02.07.11 /06:00/♥ 216

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get the feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.

~   (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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10.30.10 /03:44/♥ 124

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

~   Illusions, Richard Bach (via -sussurrare)
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10.23.10 /19:48/♥ 1846

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

~   The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via apathie)
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10.19.10 /12:39

I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

~   Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
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10.07.10 /23:48/♥ 3048

Everybody’s a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disoder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I’d rather think of it as parts of personality.

~   Jarvis Cocker  (via narcissisticdramaqueen)
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09.19.10 /02:00
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08.02.10 /00:14/♥ 3043
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