“If you still experience the stars as something “over you,” you still don’t have the eyes of a knower.”

— Nietzsche

“There I found the miners and the female friends of the miners, and in one corner a pianist—sitting at a piano over which was this notice: “Please don’t shoot the pianist; he is doing his best.” I was struck with this recognition of the fact that bad art merits the penalty of death, and I felt that in this remote city, where the aesthetic applications of the revolver were clearly established in the case of music, my apostolic task would be much simplified, as indeed it was.”

From Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

“The function of pseudo-struggles is to block the explosion of the true ones.”

“As the place onto which lack is projected, and through which it is simultaneously disavowed, woman is a ‘symptom’ for man.

Defined as such, reduced to being nothing other than this fantasmatic place, the woman does not exist.”

Jacqueline Rose, 1985
Art Sarah Lucas, 2017

The 400 blows (1959). dir. François Truffaut

Achilles:
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. 
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Troy 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen

“It’s peculiar to me that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me—who want to die but haven’t got the guts.”

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy

We are so isolated form everything! But isn't everything equally inaccessible to us? The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death.
In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

On The Heights Of Despair Emil Cioran

Roughly two weeks ago I finished reading The Boxer by Jh quite an interesting read, but a line from a certain panel keeps floating in my head

You may think you've built many relationships during your lifetime.....but when facing death....you come to realize that you are completely alone

this got me good [vid]

The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

Author(s): Charles W. Eliot; Moon Classics

Publisher: Moon Classics

Year: 2020

The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

Author(s): Charles W. Eliot; Moon Classics

Publisher: Moon Classics

Year: 2020

#bookrecs

What you call accomplishment is just a way of distracting yourself from the crushing despair of your own mortality.

Julius Bahnsen in 1847, said when he was 17 years old. “Man is a self-conscious Nothing,”