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“Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance, I cherish it.”
— Rumi, from “The Ruins of the Heart,” Love Is a Stranger (Shambhala, 2000)
btw you should absolutely read stuff you don't agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren't contagious and reading words someone else has told you are "bad" won't infect you like a virus and make you "evil". read with your own brain.
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
[text ID: 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. / 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!']
“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
Thinking about the poems about peeling clementines for people and how Clementia is the name of a Roman goddess of forgiveness. Love as an offering; this act says "forgive me, I love you".
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
— Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
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this works in the UK now too!
hoarding books and not reading them is a disease i suffer from
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
— Stephen Hawking (b. 8 January 1942)
when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”
when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”
when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
— Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist
“Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.”
— Illuminations (1968), Walter Benjamin
al aqsa mosque this morning, one of the holiest sites of islam, and during the holiest month
western news sources are calling what took place here “clashes”
tell me - do you see a clash of equal forces? or do you see israeli soldiers pushing elderly grandparents down stairs, beating women unprovoked, firing live ammunition and grenades inside a place of worship, and worshippers ducking for cover as soldiers indiscriminately fire at them?
may the occupation and it’s lies and evils come to an end.
Currently reading: Junky by William S. Burroughs.
“Perhaps all pleasure is relief.”
