“Did you ever notice that new music, now, is nowhere near as great as the music you loved as a teenager? And you know what? You’re right. Whether you were a teenager in the 60s, the 90s, or the 2010s, you’re right. The music you loved as a teenager is the sweetest music you’ll ever hear; that music will be, in all likelihood, the greatest, wildest, purest love affair of your whole life.”
― 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
― 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. He felt this from the agonizing sensation of division that he experienced at that instant. He was offended for the first instant, but the very same second he felt that he could not be offended by her, that she was himself. He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with, and that he must put up with and try to soothe the pain.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Nothing perhaps distinguishes modern masses as radically from those of previous centuries as the loss of faith in the last judgment: the worst have lost their fear, and the best have lost their hope.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real. It must be. What are our ideas or ambitions? Play. Ideas! ... Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (12-Jun-2008) Paperback
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce (12-Jun-2008) Paperback
“There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning.”
― 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
― 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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