January 2012
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He was continually talking about himself and his relation to the world about, a quality which created the unfortunate impression that he was simply a blatant egotist… To come into is presence gave me the sensation of being undressed, or rather peeled, for it was much more than mere nakedness which he demanded of the person he was talking to. In talking to me he addressed himself to a me whose...
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Whenever I tell people that I am a marxist who believes that our current system can one day turn into an egalitarian socialist system, I always get the inevitable replies about how people can not change, how they will never accept socialism, about how this system is forever and about how…
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Up to now, the concept will has been subsumed under the concept force; but I am using it just the opposite way, and mean that every force in nature is to be understood as a function of will. And this is no mere squabble over words, or matter of no moment: on the contrary, it is of the greatest significance and importance. For at the back of the concept force there is finally our visual knowledge...
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As anyone passionately excited by a living experience would have done, I pressed on, as fast as I could, to the conclusion of the Schopenhauerian system: but though its aesthetic portion had satisfied me completely, and particularly had astonished me with its notable understanding of music, I was nevertheless shocked—as any in my state of mind would have been—by the moral turn at the end of it...
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In the rites of the classical mystery cults the initiatory symbolic shocks were experienced in graduated series by neophytes spiritually ready, who were carried thereby through expanding revelations to whatever sign or event, displayed within the ultimate sanctum, conferred the consummating epiphany. But life too confers initiations, and the most potent of these are of sex and death. Life too...
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“I do not fear to be alone. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
December 2011
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“I am totally done with my novel.
Fuck, yeah.
Details to come.”
– Me.
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As creators become less and less confined by limitations — of genres and styles, cultural boundaries,creative influences, artistic disciplines, and fan-creator relationships — we too are taking a community-minded approach to reassess the rigid models that have driven arts journalism for so…
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“There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
November 2011
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“For a hundred dead stories there still remain one or two living ones. I evoke...”
– — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if...
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La Dispute - Nov. 4th, 2011 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR FROM REDEFINE MAGAZINE This probably won’t be the most “professional” review ever — but in my shaky defense, I dare say that previous revisions were even more visceral and less sophisticated than this one… so there’s that.
Now onto the concert-going frustrations of a La Dispute fan over the age of...
October 2011
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“What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves. ‘Practice,’ in the words of William James, ‘may change our theoretical horizon, and this in a twofold way: it may lead into new worlds and secure new powers. Knowledge we could never attain, remaining what we are, may be attainable in consequences of higher powers and a higher life, which we...
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“There is a great deal of lyrical Utopianism in this book. I do not apologize for...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger, Volume 1: Final Secret Of The Illuminati
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“If one isn’t crucified, like Christ, if one manages to survive, to go on...”
– — Henry Miller, Tropic Of Capricorn
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“Everything that happens, when it has significance, is in the nature of a...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic Of Capricorn
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“The earth is one great sentient being, a planet saturated through and through...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic Of Capricorn
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“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the...”
– Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (via litige)
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“It’s Surrealist Shamanism meets Gangsta Rap. I’m just going off...”
– Arrington de Dionyso, on his musical style (INTERVIEW)
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“Who gives a damn about my personal expression — whether I’m happy or...”
– Arrington de Dionyso, on album themes (INTERVIEW)
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“Combinations of sounds are no different to me than combinations of colors. If...”
– Arrington de Dionyso, on musical choices and influences (INTERVIEW)
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“I don’t really think that writing songs about your personal life is really...”
– Arrington de Dionyso, on album themes (INTERVIEW)
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via thevanityofattempt-quotes)
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“Everything that irritates us about others is what leads us to an understanding...”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via cwnl)
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...”
– Albert Einstein (via misswallflower)
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“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a...”
– Charles Dickens (via feedforthefire)
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all...”
– J.G. Ballard (via secondratemachine)
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all...”
– J.G. Ballard (via secondratemachine)
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“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me....”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye (via assemblage2011)
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (VIEW)
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (VIEW)
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“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (VIEW)
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“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (VIEW)
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it...”
– William Blake, The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
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“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh (via aeloquence)
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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we...”
– Stephen Colbert (via girlgoesgrrr)
I love this quote so much.
(via psychoactivities)
September 2011
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Non-mystics have denied the validity of the mystical experience, describing it as merely subjective and illusory. But it should be remembered that to those who have never actually had it, any direct intuition must seem subjective and illusory. It is impossible for the deaf to form any idea of the nature or significance of music. Nor is physical disability the only obstacle in the way of musical...
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“God in the depths of us receives God who comes to us; it is God contemplating...”
– The Blessed John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
August 2011
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In the contemporary world there are two classes of bad plans — the plans invented and put into practice by men who do not accept our ideal postulates, and the plans invented and put into practice by the men who accept them, but imagine that the ends proposed by the prophets can be achieved by wicked or unsuitable means. Hell is paved with good intentions, and it is probable that plans made...
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It is possible to arrange a society in such a way that even so fundamental a tendency as the lust for power cannot easily find expresion. Among the Zuni Indians, for example, individuals are not led into the kind of temptation which invites the men of our civilization to work for fame, wealth, social position or power. By us, success is always worshipped. But among the Zunis it is such bad form to...
July 2011
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The rest of the story, to Grand’s thinking, was very simple. The common lot of married couples. You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget to love. As the head of the office where Grand was employed hadn’t kept his promise, Jeanne, too, had to work outside. At this point a little imagination was needed to grasp what Grand was...
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“You’re out of context!”
– Woman, to man, after seeing him in a place she didn’t expect to see him.
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“All actions take place in time by the interweaving of the forces of nature, but...”
– Bhagavad Gita
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“A true act creates the conditions of its own possibility. That is to say, it...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist
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“The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness...”
– Lynn Barber, British journalist
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Twentieth-century political thinking is incredibly primitive. The nation is personified as a living being with passions, desires, susceptibilities. The National Person is superhuman in size and energy but completely sub-human in morality. Ordinarily decent behaviour cannot be expected of the National Person, who is thought of as incapable of patience, forbearance, forgiveness and even of...
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perhaps the “relationship” shared by myself and the unmentionable other was a mere flapping of a butterfly’s wings on a conceptual level — but in the grand scheme, it has altered the course of my life and subsequently that of countless others. without even trying, he has defined my future, and reactions to benevolent circumstance have formulated my new existence.
our brief...