Christian

“In paganism, by contrast, good cannot be separated from beauty—and this is quite normal, since what is good are the most accomplished forms of this world. Consequently, art cannot be separated from religion. Art is sacred. Not only can the gods be represented, but art is how they can be represented, and insofar as men perpetually assure them of re-presentation, they have a full status of existence. All European spirituality is based on representation as mediation between the visible and the invisible, on representation by means of depicted figures and signs exchanged against a meaning intimately tied to the real, the very guarantee of this incessant and mutual conversion of the sign and of meaning. Beauty is the visible sign of what is good; ugliness the visible sign of not only what is deformed or spoiled, but bad.21”
― Alain de Benoist, On Being a Pagan

“We live our lives not once, it suggested, but again and again: entering the same dilemmas, making the same mistakes, coming to the same crossroads and always, after much anguished weighing of possibilities, taking the same road as before. We encounter the same delights and the same miseries, every time as fresh as they were before – though sometimes, at some apparently meaningless moment, there may come like an echo of a familiar phrase of music a sudden momentary flash of memory from some point along the spiral we have already travelled, bringing with it the déjà vu sensation that Priestley put into his title, and that almost everybody has experienced at some time: I have been here before. And then the flash is gone, and our lives go on, repeating their pattern over and over again.97”
― Merlin Coverley, Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past

“You never realize how fragile you are until you’re already in pieces.”
― Chandler Morrison, #thighgap

“For there is, in final analysis, no weapon so thoroughly potent against evil as is laughter, ridicule! To take evil seriously is to magnify its importance; but ridicule renders its venom impotent, futile. Try it, you who doubt—try it in your hour of utmost need!”
― Nictzin Dyalhis, The Sapphire Goddess: The Fantasies of Nictzin Dyalhis