“When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.”
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Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.”
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“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”
― Cosmopolis
― Cosmopolis
“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
― Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
“Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.”
― Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
― Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
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