- "find a beautiful piece of art. if you fall in love with van gogh or matisse or john oliver killens, or if you fall in love with the music of coltrane, the music of aretha franklin, or the music of chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less." maya angelou
- "find life experiences and swallow them whole. travel. meet many people. go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. try everything. exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life." lawrence k. fish
- "i don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision." allen ginsberg
- "art is made to console those who are broken by life." van gogh
- "philosophy teaches us and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned settings and making it strange. that's how the examples work... philosophy estranges us, not by providing us with new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing. the risk is, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quiet the same again. self-knowledge is like a lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be unthought or unknown." michael j. sandel
- "and never have i felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world." albert camus
- "april is the cruelest month, breeding / lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / memory and desire, stirring / dull roots with spring rain." t.s. eliot, the waste land
- "for i have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. i've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment." john steinbeck
- "let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it." vincent van gogh, letter to theo (1888)
- "i spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. i shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or a maggot." caspar david friedrich
- "i was drawn to all the wrong things: i liked to drink, i was lazy, i didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. i was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and i accepted it. i didn't make for an interesting person. i didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. what i really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone." charles bukowski
- "i've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower i can't quite make out what it is. it takes time." charles bukowski
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