Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
—Mary Rakow
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
—Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
—grow every second
Tuesday:
Nothing. Existed.
—Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.
—Graham Hancock
And I thought I’d just let you know… There’s no god. And there is no heaven. And there is fucking nothing.
—Alice Glass
Chaos is better than anything. I want everyone to go mental.
—Alice Glass
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
—Franz Kafka
How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
