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The trouble with being born

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Burning in hell
this piece of me fits in nowhere
as other people find things
to do
with their time
places to go
with one another
things to say
to each other.
letter opener made by U.S. silver manufacturer Dominick & Haff, New York, circa 1900.
“The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.”

— Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Life, and Nothing More, Abbas Kiarostami, 1992
US Marines take a last look at a pin-up girl before landing on the Japanese held island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll on November 20th of 1943.
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

- Velimir Khlebnikov
Fiona Apple //  Seattle 1997-03-21,
Forwarded from tomrum
Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai, 1995
He who hates himself is not humble.
Snowflake on a crow’s wing
Hope is the normal form of delirium