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A heart is made mature by darkness and art.

Antonio Machado, tr. by Robert Bly, “The Water Wheel,” wr. c. 1927 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

— Franz Kafka

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“What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?”

— Blaise Pascal, Pensées (via zenhumanism)

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I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (via thequotejournals)

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I like the night sky better than the gods of men.

Albert Camus, American Journals

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“The most fearful and fundamental desire in man, his drive for power, must be held in check the longest. This is why ethics, with its unconcsious instinct for education and breeding, disparages the tyrannical individual and emphasizes the power-instinct of the herd.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §720 (edited).

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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe to be a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”

— Melville, Chapter 49, “The Hyena,” in Moby-Dick

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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)

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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via philosophybits)

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Hercules Segers: Imaginary Landscape

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This world is man’s place of exile and yet it is the only kingdom he knows.

Albert Camus

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by Dozier Bell 

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No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.

Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism (via sisyphean-revolt)