Juli 2011
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but...
– Alain de Botton (On Love)
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...
– Charles Bukowski
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Du Meine Seele
Du meine Seele, du mein Herz, du meine Wonne, o du mein Schmerz, du meine Welt, in der ich lebe, mein Himmel du, darin ich schwebe, o du mein Grab, in das hinab ich ewig meinen Kummer gab! Du bist die Ruh’, du bist der Frieden, du bist der Himmel, mir beschieden. Daß du mich liebst, macht mich mir wert, dein Blick hat mich vor mir verklärt, du hebst mich liebend über mich, mein...
Life as a Long Dream
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. The systematic reading of this book is real [waking] life, but when the reading hours (that is, the day) are over, we often continue idly to turn over the leaves, and read a page here and there without method or connection: often one we have read before, sometimes one that is new to us, but always in the same book. Such an isolated page is ...
Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that dreaming and wakefulness are the pages of a...
– Jorge Luis Borges, “When Fiction Lives in Fiction”, a review of Flann O’Brien’s novel At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
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Homesick
gangadevi:
krishnajai:
There’s something missing from this trip abroad… its about the size and shape of the most beautiful thing in the world.
Oh darling, you can’t fit Taco Reef into your suitcases, unfortunately.
It’s you.
Hi new followers! (And old)
gangadevi:
I’d love it if you told me a bit about yourselves.
What is (are) your favorite animal(s)?
If you had to retire to one country in the world with all of the money you would need to live comfortably, where would you go?
Have you ever been in love (even if only for an hour)?
What is one thing that gave you an incredible amount of joy?
What was the best year of your life?
I hope...
Hafiz...
And For No Reason
And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.
And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is carried so high
I kiss the Sun’s mouth
And dissolve.
And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table,
Start passing their
Cups of wine
And their wild songbooks all around.
And
For every reason in existence
I begin to...
Homesick
There’s something missing from this trip abroad… its about the size and shape of the most beautiful thing in the world.
comedurme:
WuouW
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Schopenhauer's aesthetics
tsparks:
Via: Wikipedia
Arthur Schopenhauer’s aesthetics result from his doctrine of the primacy of the Will as the thing in itself, the ground of life and all being; and from his judgment that the Will is evil. Schopenhauer held that art offers a way for people to temporarily escape the suffering that results from willing. Basing his doctrine on the dual aspect of the world as will and...
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Some reflections on a quote...
“Art corrupts because by an attractive eloquent commentary upon human affairs it apes a sort of insight, a unified vision, which in its true form is a spiritual achievement. (Corruptio optimi pessima.) Bad art damages us in obvious ways by prompting false egoistic fantasy. But even serious art is dangerous, or is especially dangerous, because it resembles the good, it is a spurious short-cut to...
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