November 2011
Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that it would change nothing.
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the...
– Martin Luther King Jr
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some...
– Carl Sagan (via avenuemuse)
Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...
– Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky (via sexielovers, thefullnilson)
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me....
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye
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