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yess… yeeeesss... pain is a privilege…

“I shout it to you not as a comfort, not as a state in which you are to remain, but as an action requiring all of the soul’s strength and gravity and self-command, as sure as it is my conviction, my triumph over the world, that any person who has not tasted the bitterness of despair has missed the meaning of life, however beautiful and joy-filled his life has been.”

not sure why i thought the aesthetic validity of marriage wouldn’t be about marriage 💔 anyways get him bro

“It is only when you have opposition that you are within yourself, but then, really, you are never within but constantly outside yourself.”

hey i kinda like this guy. huge

“Now, it is true enough that we ought not to vanish in a fleeting hope, and that this is not the way we are to be transfigured on high; but for real enjoyment one must have air and it isn’t only in the moment of sorrow that the heavens must be held open, it is important to have an unobstructed view even in times of joy and the double doors thrown wide.”

thank god my shoe size is 9

“For my practice has always been permeated with the conviction that woman is essentially being-for-another. That is why the moment is of infinite importance here; for being-for-another is always a matter of the moment. The moment may take longer or a shorter time coming, but as soon as it comes, what is as originally being-for-another becomes relative being, and then it is all over.”

you call him an aesthete i call him sociopathic. unrelatedly, rizatripan is calling my name

“The ethical is just as boring in life as it is in learning. What a difference! Beneath the sky of the aesthetic everything is light, pleasant and fleeting; when ethics come along everything becomes hard, angular, an unending ennui.”

madonne nere!

“Ora egli è morto, come mio padre a cui l’avevo regalato, ed è sepolto sotto un mandorlo in faccia al mare di Liguria, in quella mia terra dove io non posso mettere il piede, poiché pare che i potenti, nel loro terrore del sacro, abbiano scoperto che anche in me è una doppia natura, e che, anch’io, sono mezzo barone e mezzo leone.”

VOYEURISM & AVOIDANCE! EVVIVA!

“One’s enjoyment is not immediate but is something quite different which one arbitrarily injects. You see the middle of a play, read the third part of a book.”

nine hundredth søren update of the day. i have never seen haterdom as beautiful as this. i love you crop circles

“No other nation but the English produces such natural curiosities; other nationals are always a little more lively, not so absolutely stillborn.”

probably need to revisit “the unhappiest one” but i’m too excited to read “CROP ROTATIONS”!!! AHH!!!

“For when an individual loses his hope, and instead of becoming a remembering individual, wants to remain a hoping one, then we get this form.”

SUCH whiplash. let us never forget the western tradition of being super weird about women 🙏

“The names must be regarded as common nouns, and I for my part shall not object should one or other of you feel inclined to call the particular picture by another name, a dearer name, or some name that perhaps comes more naturally to you.”