We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Note on Riggan's dressing room mirror:
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek
― Slavoj Žižek
“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
― Slavoj Zizek
― Slavoj Zizek
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“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek
― Slavoj Žižek
“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
― Slavoj Žižek
― Slavoj Žižek
Divinity classes were unspeakably dull, and I felt a downright fear of the mathematics class.
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn’t even know what numbers really were.
They were not flowers, not animals, not fossils; they were nothing that could be imagined, mere quantities that resulted from counting.
To my confusion these quantities were now represented by letters, which signified sounds, so that it became possible to hear them, so to speak.
Oddly enough, my classmates could handle these things and found them self-evident.
No one could tell me what numbers were, and I was unable even to formulate the question.
To my horror I found that no one understood my difficulty.
- Carl Jung
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn’t even know what numbers really were.
They were not flowers, not animals, not fossils; they were nothing that could be imagined, mere quantities that resulted from counting.
To my confusion these quantities were now represented by letters, which signified sounds, so that it became possible to hear them, so to speak.
Oddly enough, my classmates could handle these things and found them self-evident.
No one could tell me what numbers were, and I was unable even to formulate the question.
To my horror I found that no one understood my difficulty.
- Carl Jung
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The Starry Night
Divinity classes were unspeakably dull, and I felt a downright fear of the mathematics class. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn’t even know what numbers really were. They were not flowers…
My intellectual morality fought against these whimsical inconsistencies, which have forever debarred me from understanding mathematics.
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The Starry Night
My intellectual morality fought against these whimsical inconsistencies, which have forever debarred me from understanding mathematics.
But my fear of failure and my sense of smallness in face of the vast world around me created in me not only a dislike but a kind of silent despair which completely ruined school for me.
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"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me."
- Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.
- Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
― Frank Herbert, Dune