Oh.

Am I intimidating?

"From the outset of adolescence I couldn't, for one thing, bring myself to believe in 'comradeship.' My contemporaries seemed to me all insufferably dim. We were condemned to spend the greater part of our daylight hours at school--a stupid organization that obliged us to select friends from among a few predetermined, boring boys of the same age ( Read more... )

I'm such a snob.

Shit.

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grubby fist: what do you want to get out of romance ( Read more... )

"To live a dispassionate and cultured life in the open air of ideas, reading, dreaming and thinking of writing--a life so slow it constantly verges on tedium, but pondered enough never to find itself there. To live this life far from emotions and thought, living it only in the thought of emotions and the emotion of thoughts. To goldenly stagnate ( Read more... )

"And so he had brought everything to a successful conclusion out of his acuity and coldness of heart."

"Does history ever obey the will of men? Looking at you always makes me ponder that question. You're not a great man and you're not a genius either. But, nonetheless, you have one characteristic that sets you quite apart: you have no trace whatever of willpower. And so I am always fascinated to think of you in relation to history ( Read more... )

"Despair is the sickness unto death.

...there is not the remotest possibility of dying of this sickiness in the straightforward sense, or of this sickness ending in physical death.  On the contrary, the torment of despair is precisely the inability to die...

...Thus to be sick unto death is to be unable to die, yet not as though there were hope of ( Read more... )

I figured it's time that I update. I have very little to say, or little I'd like to say, mostly because I frankly don't give a fuck about any of you. This shouldn't come as a surprise, I doubt I seem even remotely sympathetic to anyone who has spent a minute of their time talking with me. I've never been very compassionate, I tend to address ( Read more... )