November 2010
6 posts
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.: "Chuck... →
fuckyeschuckpalahniuk:
Boswell: And right next to violence is death. We also need to come into contact with death to be in touch with life.
Palahniuk: Right. Now in our culture we’ve pushed death about as far away as it can be. And sentimentalized and distorted and hidden it. We’ve become a culture that denies death…
2 tags
Alone
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were — I have not seen As others saw — I could not bring My passions from a common spring — From the same source I have not taken My sorrow — I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone — And all I lov’d — I lov’d alone — Then — in my childhood — in the dawn Of a most stormy life — was drawn From ev’ry depth...
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue,...”
– George Bernard Shaw, the new shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
2 tags
2 tags
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the...”
– Simone Weil (via oceanofmind)