- “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.” — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Jose Esteban Munoz: x "Queerness is not yet here... We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future... Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present… We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there... Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world."
- It's not a priority.
- These are the axes.
- Statelessness.
- "To live in this pluralistic world means to experience freedom as a continual oscillation between belonging and disorientation." — Gianni Vattimo, The End of Modernity
- "Your body is not a temple. Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.” — Sierra DeMulder
- "Bon courage." — my high school French teacher
- "Second, always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two." — Caitlin Moran
- “I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.” — Warsan Shire
- "Even the ugliest among us have made our lovers beg." — Courtney Love
- the fact that I wanted to attribute this quote to Margaret Atwood when I couldn't remember the source makes me smile
- “A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
- — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1958
- "I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”
- "Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it."
- "Will you promise me something? Will you throw yourself into yourself? Dive in at the deep end."
- “We should have more trust in our own resilience and less confidence in our predictions about how we’ll feel. We should be a bit more humble and a bit more brave.”
- “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
- "The sadness will last forever."
- ― Vincent van Gogh's last words (maybe)
- "Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’"
- “And kid, you’ve got to love yourself. You’ve got wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. You’ve got to sit next to the man at the train station who’s reading your favorite book and start a conversation. You’ve got to come home after a bad day and burn your skin from a shower. Then you’ve got to wash all your sheets until they smell of lemon detergent you bought for four dollars at the local grocery store. You’ve got to stop taking everything so goddam personally. You are not the moon kissing the black sky. You’ve got to compliment someones crooked brows at an art fair and tell them that their eyes remind you of green swimming pools in mid July. You’ve got to stop letting yourself get upset about things that won’t matter in two years. Sleep in on Saturday mornings and wake yourself up early on Sunday. You’ve got to stop worrying about what you’re going to tell her when she finds out. You’ve got to stop over thinking why he stopped caring about you over six months ago. You’ve got to stop asking everyone for their opinions. Fuck it. Love yourself, kiddo. You’ve got to love yourself.”
- "I had a lovers' quarrel with the world." — Robert Frost
sep 5 2013 ∞
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