March 2012
February 2012
Most of us, by the time we leave childhood, have repressed our vision of the...
– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death. This idea of necessary partialization is enormously useful in thinking about mental illness, socialization and maturation, art, everything. Later, Becker puts it more plainly:
When we say neurosis represents the truth of life we again mean that life is an...
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
– C.S. Lewis (via sleepypsychedelia)
It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly...
– Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (via mirroir)
My soul
is an empty
carousel at
sunset
– Pablo Neruda (via mirroir)
O time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!
– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (via mirroir)