“People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.” — WIlliam S. Burroughs, The Western Lands (via honeyforthehomeless)
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.” — The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via iamjenye)
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“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the pointless drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right; pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life; getting back up is living.” — Karl Marx (via sixtydiamondminutes)
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“I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.” — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)
“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
-William Golding
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“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.” — Karl Marx (via theredhammerandsickle)
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Hermann Hesse, Demian
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“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor - not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.” — Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (1949)
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“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” — Aldo Leopold (via citizenengineer)
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“Secrets go faster than moles underground.” — Richard Adams, Watership Down
“We come into the world and we have to go: but we do not go merely to serve the turn of one enemy or another. If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day.” — Richard Adams, Watership Down
“Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sid down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” — Richard Adams, Watership Down
“There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well.” — Richard Adams, Watership Down
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” — Hermann Hesse (via libraryland)
“All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” — Jack Kerouac (via des0lationintheworld)