fear is not the end of this

"One looks for peace and turns to human beings to get it from them. But they can give nothing to..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:32:51 -0400

“One looks for peace and turns to human beings to get it from them. But they can give nothing to begin with but madness and confusion. It must be sought elsewhere, yet the heavens are mute. And then, but only then, can one return to human beings, since, lacking peace, they give you sleep.”

- Albert Camus - Notebooks 1942-1951 (via sisyphean-revolt)

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a-knot: The tour beings today!

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:28:25 -0400

a-knot:

The tour beings today!

aseaofquotes: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “White Nights”

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:26:23 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “White Nights”

aseaofquotes: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Submitted...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:25 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Submitted by hopbouncing.

"What we have here is a failure of imagination. Some people cannot imagine themselves being happy..."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:05:02 -0400

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What we have here is a failure of imagination.

Some people cannot imagine themselves being happy without children, or a particular body shape, or religion, and so they cannot imagine that I am. They have put my lived experience through their validity prisms and decided that if I say I am happy in circumstances in which they could not be, I must be lying. Or in denial. Or using a bit of bravado in order to mask a secret unhappiness. Accusations of some flaw in me, to obfuscate a failure of basic empathy.

Sometimes, it’s people who are themselves childless, or fat, or have had a crisis of faith—and the unhappiness they feel because of those things is so profound that they cannot imagine anyone being happy in similar circumstances. It may be genuine disbelief, or it may be envy, that invites their suspicion and repudiation of my happiness.

And some people who have children, or are thin, or go to church every week, claim these things make them happy, when in fact they are deeply unhappy. They hate parenting; they live a life of restriction and self-denial and hunger to unnaturally maintain a thin physique; they go to church only because they feel like they should. And they resent that they sacrifice so much shit to do what society tells them is “right” yet remain miserable, while I reject the imperatives to reproduce, to hate myself, to engage in religious ritual, and feel happy and free as a result.

There’s no effective response to Happiness Policers, because there’s no way to convince someone of your happiness when they are determined to believe otherwise. If you ignore them, they will interpret that as PROOF! that you are unable to refute them and thus they are right. If you insist you are happy, they will accuse you of “protesting too much” which is PROOF! that you are secretly unhappy and thus they are right. It’s a losing game. Which is entirely the point.

It’s tiresome. But the only thing to be done is to speak your truth about being happy in who you are, knowing the Happiness Policers will do their thing, and knowing that their hostility toward your emotional integrity says something about them, not about you.

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- Shakesville: The Happiness Police (via veruca-assault)

ryandonato: Odelia Toder, Keep Searching

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:22:24 -0400

ryandonato:

Odelia Toder, Keep Searching

whoinspiresme: Václav Jirásek - Infection, 2002

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:20:48 -0400

whoinspiresme:

Václav Jirásek - Infection, 2002

aseaofquotes: Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:20:30 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

yannevell: Ginger Rogers

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:43:03 -0400

yannevell:

Ginger Rogers

aseaofquotes: Yann Martel, Life of Pi Submitted...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:42:55 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Submitted by perhaps-someday-iwillbe.

"…I have known all these situations, I have experienced them myself, yet none of them has given rise..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:53:18 -0400

“…I have known all these situations, I have experienced them myself, yet none of them has given rise to the person my curriculum vitea and I represent. The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrifed by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own I ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about…”

- Umberto Eco, From ‘6 walks in the fictional woods’ (via jakeronomicon)

twloha: What does your creative space look like? What kind of...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:50:48 -0400

twloha:

What does your creative space look like? What kind of room do you work best in? What items or environments most inspire you? Here’s a glimpse into the workspaces of 40 famous creatives, including artist Yoshimoto Nara’s and author Roald Dahl’s, as shown above.

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:03:55 -0400

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:56:53 -0400

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:56:30 -0400

tea-with-theo: Mikhail Vrubel, The duel between Pechorin and...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:13:18 -0400

tea-with-theo:

Mikhail Vrubel, The duel between Pechorin and Gurshnitsky, illustration for Mikhail Lermontov’s only novel A Hero of our Time. (1891)

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:08:59 -0400

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:15:22 -0400

““For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.””

- Charles Bukowski (via jeffaintshityet)

ominousplaces: Eerie. By Lavaspawn.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:40:35 -0400

ominousplaces:

Eerie. By Lavaspawn.