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I know that she’s playing the card where Jordan is into ‘80s music and movies, so she /must be/ on the same mental level at 19 as this 30-something guy and was “born in the wrong decade” but this still feels kind of creepy and sleazy to me and I haven’t even gotten to anything really romantic or sexual.
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
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“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”
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