October 2010
48 posts
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via ratak-monodosico, likesbears)
“When a teacher who does not take himself or herself to be a teacher,
meets a...”
– Jean Klein (via ratak-monodosico)
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
– Samuel Beckett, Murphy (via ratak-monodosico)
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“I’m afraid I have to admit that the Jews have invented guilt some three thousand years ago back in Jerusalem. Then the Christian have spread it all over the world. I have to say that as a Jew I feel very guilty about the invention of guilt by the Jews. Like anyone of us, if I don’t feel guilty for a whole day then in the evening I feel guilty for not feeling guilty for a whole...
“‘What do you do from morning to night?’
‘I endure myself.’”
– Emil Cioran (via ratak-monodosico)
“For the sake of a single poem,
you must see many cities,
many people and...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, courtesy of The Beauty We Love. (via ratak-monodosico)
“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my...”
– Charles Bukowski (via ratak-monodosico)
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
(Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
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Just as an excessive sense of guilt can drive people to excessive action, so was Miss Brodie driven to it by an excessive lack of guilt.
(Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
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The evening paper rattle-snaked its way through the letter box and there was suddenly a six-o’clock feeling in the house.
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
In A Jar: Lesterbangsismi Pt 6 lois, i promise... →
inajar:
Lesterbangsismi Pt 6
lois, i promise someday you’ll meet someone even move special. clark kent
una cosa bella dell’inglese, per esempio, è il suo pragmatismo: l’inglese è più realista del re – e non per niente a londra ci sta la regina, che vale di più. da quelle parti i modi per…
nevver:
Introduction, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To...
“Sia chiaro, per saggezza intendo la capacità di agire in armonia coi miei errori...”
– Ennio Flaiano, La saggezza di Pickwick, in Diario notturno (via darkpassenger)
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein (via thetranscendentalmodernist)
La famiglia va in scena solo quando è in decomposizione, altrimenti non è un soggetto interessante. È così da cento anni, ed è destinato a continuare per parecchio: ci sono secoli di sacre famiglie da dissacrare. Nel frattempo però quelli che sono cresciuti nelle famiglie *normali* si sentono un po’ disadattati: è il paradosso della, boh, postmodernità.
Leonardo
