When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free — Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life — Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

$How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark t — Virginia Woolf, The Waves$

Punker, what's compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don't give a fuck. It's a bummer, your care slides down — Noah Wareness

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here. — Sigbjørn Obstfelder

I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I compla — Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice — Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow

You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much. — Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

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