Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. By god do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.”
— Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin (via violentwavesofemotion)
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams, The milk train doesn’t stop here anymore
Life is a hell of a thing to happen to person.
David Rossi, Criminal Minds
“Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.”
— Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”, Illuminations (1970)
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there at the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one’s heart? How could one not lend one’s feeble resources to bringing it about?
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments: Cool Memories III
The world of [bright, loud] colors is opposed to the world of values, and the ‘chic’ invariably implies the elimination of appearances in favor of being: black, white, grey — whatever registers zero on the color scale — is correspondingly paradigmatic of dignity, repression, and moral standing.
Jean Baudrillard
Quoted in McMansion, USA by Kate Wagner
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