Because I'm in a forlorn mood.

"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you-especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel ( Read more... )

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“Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought”
~Karl Jaspers

"Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."

From Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, page 104.

"There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again."

-The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane.

"The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness ( Read more... )

"I say we are here in human form to learn by the human hieroglyphs of love and suffering. There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is our duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve."
--- William S. Burroughs

These are two of my favorite one-liners from Dylan songs:

"And don't go mistaking Paradise for that home across the road." -Bob Dylan, "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

"We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it." -Bob Dylan, "Visions of Johanna"

And I don't know if this is allowed, but:


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