February 2012
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame...
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via dopatonin)
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Поэт, повторяю, есть средство существования языка. Пишущий стихотворение, ...
– (Бродский И., 1991. С.17-18).
January 2012
22 posts
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the antidote.
If you’re feeling sorry for yourself and feel like doing nothing but complainin’ about life, go ahead and read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.
gush.
Tonight I feel like I would want to do nothing else with my life but take, take, take in with all my senses, listen, see, feel viscerally. And then digest, and spill out, expel, weave words into elegant ribbons or a chaotic ball of yarn, words and picture shows like light streaming, projecting from the keyhole of the door to my mind.
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The State Of The Artist
officialiwrotethisforyou:
You, as an artist, have the greatest responsibility of all.
You are charged with trying to make people feel, in a world that tells them not to.
You are tasked with speaking soft words, painting, playing, filming, writing moments of such magnitude and beauty that people rediscover their hearts one more (last) time.
You are here to give meaning to the few decades we...
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I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of...
– From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Anyone who happened to sniff cocaine on October 24th, 1917, on the deserted and...
– Victor Pelevin from one of my favorite short stories “Crystal World”
homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women
– wow, that’s actually pretty powerful and something to think about.
Read along, ‘cause this is where I’ll write — Lexica
December 2011
44 posts
new year love.
dancing, singing, cooking, laughing. <3
wine, champagne, jazz, friends. the happiest day of the year.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
И не погаснет весны искра в нас,
пока мы, сидя в холодном трамвае,
кистями...
– Александр Сэт Боровик
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We have to stop CONSUMING our culture. We have to CREATE culture. DON’T watch...
– Terence McKenna (via nathanielstuart)
Fuckin’ YES.
If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the...
– Everwood (via julie911)
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When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that...
– The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
…music is defined by its flirtation with – but not submission to – our...
– The Neuroscience Of Music - Jonah Lehrer
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I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free,...
– Ram Dass (via psychotherapy)
I don’t have enough time now to do everything I want. And that’s a good thing. I...
– Donald Glover