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[soracities]

“…perhaps it would be wisest just to take the whole thing and forget it, take it and not force the issue anymore; but we don’t forget because it is impossible to forget, and we force it, for this screaming does not cease of its own accord, no matter what we do…”

— László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below (trans. Ottilie Muzlet)

[blantland]

[mosquitogirl]

[nnuulll]

"La culture consumériste est l’institution centrale de la rêverie dans le monde contemporain, et elle façonne la nouvelle structure psychique du moi, marquée par l’espoir." [...]

"L’imagination d’Emma [Bovary] et sa déception constituent autant de tentatives de remplir ce vide réel qui l’engloutit. Ce qui rend la modernité intolérable, c’est le fait qu’elle ouvre constamment des horizons de vie excitants et interdits, qu’elle boursoufle le moi, qu’elle aiguise nos attentes, pour finalement nous jeter sur des chemins de vie balisés par une quête de respectabilité creuse et banale."

Eva Illouz, Explosive modernité, nrf p. 97 & 122

[abenteuerundfreiheit]

“SCHLIESS DIE TÜR UND BEGREIFE, daß niemandem etwas fehlt, wenn du fehlst, begreife, daß du der einzige bist der ohne Pause über dich nachdenkt, daß du die Tür schließen kannst ohne viel Aufhebens und ohne Angst, es könnte dich einer beobachten. Dich beobachtet keiner. Du fehlst keinem. Wenn du das begriffen hast, kannst du die Tür schließen hinter dir.”

— aus: Thomas Brasch: Was ich mir wünsche. Gedichte aus Liebe

[henk-heijmans]

A young girl lying on a statue of a blacksmith, Bismarck National Monument, Berlin, 1961 - by Floris M. Neusüss (1937 - 2020), German

[heavensdarling]

Göhl, Baltic Sea, Germany

[personalmoshiakh]

reading about jewish history is depressing bc it’s like this endless cycle of, “we were doing okay for a bit and even managed to partially integrate, but the political climate changed and we’re once again heavily persecuted if not outright murdered. ce la vie!” 

[personalmoshiakh]

i want gentiles to understand that Diaspora jews are getting squirrely rn bc we’ve been through this before and we can Tell the current period of relative acceptance is ending and we’re in for some shit. 

[infiniteglitterfall]

this is from 2019

[spot-the-antisemitism]

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

“My Jew hate, this time, is justified”– every antisemite in history ever

[lascitasdelashoras]

Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese at New York Public Library, 2019

[heavensdarling]

❤️

[company]

María Zardoya from The Marias @ the Met Gala 2026

[a--reader]

“It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.”

— Ford Madox Ford, the Marsden Case

[bad-writer]

“Nothing seemed really real. Sleeping, waking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. I didn’t talk to myself in my head. There wasn’t much to say. This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I’d disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was my dream.”

—  Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

[norocknroll]

“For various reasons, many forms of introspection lost all of their beauty when the therapeutic industry capitalized on them. The therapeutic narrative makes us believe that there is something inside us we can discover, a secret kernel, a source code of the ego, a shining or shocking truth. A nonsocial real self that we can live up to in order to feel again, live again. But the more we dive into our selves and the more obsessed we get in finding something alive inside, the harder we try to finally feel something instead of infinite boredom, the less we are able to feel. Richard Sennett tells you so, Eva Illouz tells you so, Haruki Murakami tells you so, in an interesting metaphor, in the Wind Up Bird Chronicles: What can we expect after having unraveled all the layers of our social identity, but a void, an empty dark well without water?”

— via https://www.reddit.com/user/chauchat_mme

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

MY favourite kind of man, fictional or otherwise? if he believes himself abandoned by god and despairs and suffers and copes stupidly yet has a touch of something angelic in him buried by the weight of grief then i am already interested.

[abenteuerundfreiheit]

“Wenn, wie Freud dachte, der Mensch neurotisch wird, weil er das Ausmaß des Verzichts, das die Gesellschaft fordert, nicht ertragen kann, so wird er depressiv, weil er die Illusion ertragen muss, dass ihm alles möglich ist.”

— Alain Ehrenberg, 2004, Das erschöpfte Selbst. (via bubizitrone)

[gegendensatz]

“Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. […] Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist noch immer die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.”

— Max Frisch: Biedermann und die Brandstifter. Suhrkamp. S.43.

[phelotom]

“Dieser Eifer, sich selbst als beispielhaft zu sehen, ist eine mir unerklärliche Erklärung, die hinter so vielen Streiten als Antriebskraft steht. Vielleicht, weil man nicht erträgt, in einer Karikatur zu wohnen, muss man seine depperten, im Eigenheim verwirklichten Entscheidungen immer so verteidigen, als müssten sie für alle gelten.”

— Ann Cotten, Was geht