January 2012
5 posts
The Maker must always avoid the Sin of Daedalus
But often he will be too eager to notice
“A word to the wise is sufficient”
1 tag
“Why do kids who can’t master high school end up as some of the most...”
– Paul Graham on Hackers
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– Noam Chomsky
1 tag
December 2011
12 posts
So exhausted that I can’t sleep
“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pavorst)
“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of...”
– Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (via simko)
“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are...”
– Bertrand Russell
2 tags
“ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ”
– Σωκράτης
Life is the unseen chime of a bell through the morning fog. From nothing it pierces the air, simultaneously shocking and pleasing the hearing of those around. Before you know it, the sound fades and once again stillness settles in. Only the memory remains, and even it will diminish in a short while. Just because the sound fails to linger doesn’t mean that it was any less beautiful when rang.
MITFORD: to Zelda from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 26th... →
mitford:
to Zelda from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 26th April 1934
You and I have been happy; we haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times. The chances that the spring, that’s for everyone, like in the popular songs, may belong to us too—the chances are pretty bright at this time because…
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
– Nietzsche
November 2011
40 posts
“¡Ay, qué trabajo me cuesta
quererte como te quiero!
Por tu amor me duele el...”
– Es Verdad, Lorca
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”
– Pablo Neruda (via nirvikalpa)
I can’t tell one from another
did I find you or you find me?
“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
– Themistocles
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
– Einstein
Feeling like a ghost within your own body
your hand moves unconsciously
but you don’t feel its fingertips
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in...”
– Aristotle (via commondense)
1 tag
Sometimes the world will be against you, keep your chin up and bless each morning.
“The main thing, your honor, is not to spend too much time thinking about it; if...”
– Sevastopol in December by Leo Tolstoy
L’appel du vide
I must resist you once more
though you stand right in front of me
Una mattina mi son svegliato, o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao! Una mattina mi son svegliato e ho trovato l’invasor. O partigiano, portami via, o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao! O partigiano, portami via, ché mi sento di morir. E se io muoio da partigiano, o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao! E se io muoio da partigiano, tu mi...
“Those who fire on their own people will go down in history as leaders who feed...”
– Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Censorship Can't Silence Us It'll Only Make Us... →
time’s are changing
get used to it or quit
dinosaurs will die
no matter how well they hide reality from their eyes
“Blood, as all men know, than water’s thicker
But water’s wider,...”
– Aldous Huxley
2 tags
Concealing my cards
my brow furrows, dashed with sweat
Will they ever know?
2 tags
History and fate are curious things. A man can win 14 battles only to lose his head in the last and be remembered as a failure. Everyone remembers Waterloo, only the romantics remember Austerlitz.
Yet again I find myself criss-crossing the Mare Frigoris; hoping one day to find the shore. My apologies, Ms. Luna, I will vacate as soon as I am able.
The contrast between what we say and what we do drives the plot of our lives.
2 tags
“La photographie, c’est la vérité, et le cinéma, c’est vingt-quatre...”
– Le Petit Soldat
Us smokey campfire vagabonds,
We’ll find our road someday
Interlocking locks
bottomless chasms
the dark unknown
that exists within your brow
“Over a sea of grief Scarlet died
above her dying mind were fossilfied memory...”
– Death Of A Shade Of A Hue, by Of Montreal (via neonmoment)
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he...”
– Plutarch (c. 46-120)
What to say, when colors fade, turned and transformed, not-so-dazzling grays
I want to know, I want to see, what everyone else truly believes
The color red, my cold cold bed, will I know tomorrow?
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their...”
– Diane Setterfield (via neonmoment)
“He smiled and thought: “I’ll keep any oversupply of that for...”
– Robert Jordan from Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”