January 2012
35 posts
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere...
– G.K. Chesterton (via metaconscious)
Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious...
– Joseph Conrad
Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer....
– E.E. Cummings, “Forward to an Exhibit: II” (1945)
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no...
– Alan Watts
The great treachery is to enter the home of someone you intend to injure,...
– — Henri Michaux, from “The Emanglons” in Voyage to Great Garaban
Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different...
– Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of...
– Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe | Brain Pickings
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
8 posts
Okkervil River – “Your Past Life as a Blast” (Alternate Take)
October 2011
20 posts
As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as...
– Time Immemorial.: