everyday poetry

"I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist."

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The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

via fuckyeahexistentialism * delicateswans (via frenchtwist)

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"the dilectics of law and crime lies only in the fact that there is no crime without law but, above all, in that law itself is nothing more than a universalized crime."

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slavoj zizek

"I recall feelings rather than meetings, people, and situations."

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Andrei Tarkovsky, A Poet in the Cinema, 1983 (via icancauseaconstellation)

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Eat Cézanne in order to survive WWII. - Gertrude Stein

Painting is still worth something; photography isn’t. - Gertrude Stein

A Bitch is a Bitch is a Bitch is a Bitch. - ERNEST Hemingway

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"We think it’s so incredible that one person could sit there for 20 years without any promotion in a city that is all about promotion, where we are dying to be noticed, where we are dying to throw our names everywhere,"

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Mr. Helguera of MoMA

"to be sure we need history. but we need it in a manner different from the way in which the spoilt idler in the garden of knowledge uses it (…) that is, we need it for life and action, or merely for glossing over the egotistical life and the cowardly bad act."

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nietzsche: vom nutzen und nachteil der historie für das leben

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
but the illusion of knowledge.” (Stephen Hawking)"

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"A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. “I shall be yours,” she told him, “when you have spend a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my windows.” But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away."

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Roland Barthes, Waiting - A Lover’s Discourse (via icancauseaconstellation)

"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."

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Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems (via leash-and-collar)

(via divineconceptionoftheheart)

"Rumi
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears."

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vicarious-vagabond:

“No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.”

(Source: trillanometry, via freudianfuckeries)

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

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Terry Prachett (via ellenegs)