July 2010
“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life?”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
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Chuck Palahniuk
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“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that’s why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
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The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
What i want is Perspective… What i think i need to need to be less unsatisfied.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.”
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Charlie Brown
