• "let people judge me as they please--I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself" - Leo Tolstoy
• "most people are other people. their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - oscar wilde

^ i used to think a lot about distinguishing the self from the engrained. i still produce better art when i distance myself from other peoples' work usually

• "letting go is like pulling a tooth. when it is pulled out, you're relieved. but how many times does your tongue run itself over the spot where the tooth once was? probably a hundred times a day. just because it wasn't hurting you doesn't mean you didn't notice it. it leaves a gap and sometimes you see yourself missing it terribly. it's going to take a while, but it takes time. should you have kept the tooth? no, because it was causing you so much pain. therefore move on, and let go." - some tumblr user's dentist apparently (i smell cap)
• "the number of hours we have together is actually not so large. please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it." - mikko harvey
• "suddenly you feel euphoric, docile. you accept your fate." - fucking fight club

^ i saw this in someone's bio and it just stuck with me then when it occurred to me to google it it was from fucking fight club

• "...his perpetual ability to manipulate his persona, as if it were a medium unto himself." - someone about andy warhol in the sfmoma exhibit about him i went to. i've googled these words and haven't been able to find them anywhere else since.
• "a fox only loves once" - gumihodyeon
• "the big things don't teach you something, they make you something. and sometimes you gotta wait a while and see what come of it." - the janitor, night in the woods