February 2012
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The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable...
– Jean Baudrillard
When I am…completely myself, entirely alone …my ideas flow best and most...
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Psychoanalysis has demonstrated that there is no fundamental difference, but...
– Sigmund Freud, On Psycho-Analysis (via circulationwithinmyskull)
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute...
– Guy de Maupassant, French writer (1850-1893)
Anonymous asked: But I like him alot. I love his personality and his style. He seems like the kind of person that would be a great friend to talk to and hang out with. His smile makes me smile and I feel all warm inside. I know he wont like me back, thats why Im on anon. I just want to send him cute things make him smile, because then I will. :) Hes yours as long as I can send him cute things.
Anonymous asked: I'll let you take credit this time, but I was the one to write the anon message to carnivorousdream.
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...
– Ivan Turgenev (via beethovenlivesupstairs)
The theatre of repetition is opposed to the theatre of representation, just as...
– Gilles Deleuze (via lucjanlocke)
10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran →
bahramnouraei:
pwnageprincess:
1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
2. My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
3. Iraq didn’t go so...
Optimism,” said Cacambo, “what is that?”
“Alas!” replied Candide, “it is the...
– Voltaire, Candide (via sunrec)
Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace...
– Angela Thomas (via newanddifferentsun)
Colonialism began with conquest and is today maintained by a settler...
– Haunani-Kay Trask, from “The Color of Violence” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
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In the history of human governance, spanning thousands of years, there have been...
– Why China’s Political Model Is Superior - NYTimes.com (via judaizers)
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Kierkegaard may shout in warning: ‘If there were no eternal consciousness in a...
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via absurdreasoning)
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I've been different lately.
I don’t look or feel the same. My eyes have changed, for one. I wonder if anyone’s noticed, or if this is something that I’m alone in seeing. I feel heavier than I used to, more bogged down. In a way, I like it, but it leaves me tired sometimes. I spend a lot of time thinking about what my values are, whether valuation has any meaning. In short, reevaluating values, I guess. I...
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A new development in the field of sexuality. The orgy is over, liberation is...
– Jean Baudrillard, America
Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.
– Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher (1930-2004)
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This omnipresent cult of the body is extraordinary. It is the only object on...
– Jean Baudrillard, America