禁欲

[lamorbidezza]

[mindo80]

Maybe the realisation of a desire is not as dangerous as a desire, that ramains a dream

Arthur Schnitzler, Traumnovelle (via mindo80)

[philosophybits]

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Simone de Beauvoir, from Force of Circumstances  (via stoicremains)

[qock]

Produced Water, Hamilton Dome Oil Field, Owl Creek, WY, 2013 by Lucas Foglia

[theyvcreation-deactivated202401]

[morehorror]

[explore-blog]

At the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations that reach us from what we are reading.

On World Book Day, Hermann Hesse on the 3 types of readers and why the most transcendent form of reading is non-reading. (via explore-blog)

[o-uroboro]

Gunnar Asplund, Villa Snellman, 1917

[qock]

Kathryn Shriver

[nemophilies-deactivated20190428]

To fall in love is to individualize someone by the signs he bears or emits. It is to become sensitive to these signs, to undergo an apprenticeship to them (thus the slow individualization of Albertine in the group of young girls). It may be that friendship is nourished on observation and conversation, but love is born from and nourished on silent interpretation. The beloved appears as a sign, a “soul”; the beloved expresses a possible world unknown to us, implying, enveloping, imprisoning a world that must be deciphered, that is, interpreted. What is involved, here, is a plurality of worlds; the pluralism of love does not concern only the multiplicity of loved beings, but the multiplicity of souls or worlds in each of them. To love is to try to explicate, to develop these unknown worlds that remain enveloped within the beloved.

Gilles Deleuze, Proust and Signs (via abrce)

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[theliteraryjournals]

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (via theliteraryjournals)

[bauzeitgeist]

Model of the Kotva Department Store, Prague, as designed by Vera and Vladimir Machonin, c.1973.

[fyp-philosophy]

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via wordsnquotes)

[deeplifequotes]

Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive….learn to let it go.

(via deeplifequotes)

[deeplifequotes]

If you lost something or someone but you found yourself… YOU WON

Paulo Coelho (via deeplifequotes)

[deeplifequotes]

Shout out to the people going through some things but trying their hardest to stay positive. Proud of you.

(via deeplifequotes)