Writer on the Storm

Scraps and what-nots from the nooks of my dire solitude...

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To know what people really think, observe what they do, not what they say.

Rene Descartes (via fyp-philosophy)

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(via George Orwell: 'Politics and the English Language')

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(via Theodor Adorno: 'Punctuation Marks')

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(via The Day Gabriel García Márquez Took Me to Discover Ice)

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Of Introductions and Botched Beginnings | Alvin dela Serna Lopez

Maybe this proves that life is not as we write it. Introductions and endings are way different in reality, no matter how long or hard we torment ourselves with finding the precise words.

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'A State of Statelessness' from the #street #series shot during the #BlueHours of a #Friday. Some #hdr_pics

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Aeroplanes and football games.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. (T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land")

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Zeit and #Übermensch from #nietzsche to #heidegger

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If you have a girlfriend who reads, give her this for a Christmas present. Marie-Laure lives with her father in #Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the #Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of #Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in #Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. #allthelightwecannotsee by #anthonydoerr #pulitzerprizewinner #newyorktimesbestseller #worldwar2

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My #teeshirt #motif for today. #immanuelkant #philosophy #reason and human #experience

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Suddenly I found this. I've been trying to remember how the heck did I come up with such a flag (forgive me, I was 12 years old 😅.) #throwback to one #longlost #childhood #drawings #illustrations #ship #vessel I think this was supposed to be a #clipper 😂 but #goddammit who cares what it is. #memories #memories oh sweet #memories.

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"I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it pauses" - Edgar Lee Masters #silence #solitude #writing #week

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AlDub As A Brilliant Form Of Social Criticism - Maximilien/Lopez

There is something salutary in the way the AlDub phenomenon has captured the consciousness of Generation Y. Its approbation by millions reveals the new age’s subconscious desire to rise up against the oppressive, reactionary hierarchy wearing the moral visage of our country’s predominantly Christian heritage.

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Bedside read tonight. #whodunit #sherlockholmes #geekshaveitbetter (at Jubail, Saudi Arabia)

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I've always wished I could find myself home with you, breathless and bursting, ecstatic like those stars that go breaking into comets as cities light up into love, so then I'd place a flower behind your ear, put stardust in your eyes, and whisper love songs in your lips. #poetry and #fireworks #comets and #stardust #homesickness and #longing #love #songs #words and all (at Half Moon Beach)