December 2010
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bleed my aorta
i hold back too much. i care too much about not saying things that don’t need to be said. my standards are too high. i am trying to make every post a cut diamond when i ought to just bleed my aorta.
so fuck the diamonds. i will save them for print. here i will bleed my aorta. i will hold my chest open with both hands and i will bleed at you. i have knives in my blood. they will cut you....
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In an ideal world, self-esteem bubbles up from a perpetually self-renewing...
– n+1, “Year in Review 2010: Tumblr”
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There’s a reason why all cellphones now have cameras: we can’t bear the thought that a happy moment might pass by unpreserved. In French, the word “souvenir” just means “memory.” In English it means a thing that stands in for memory. We take photos and buy souvenirs because our memories are not real enough for us. After sex, some guys add a notch to their...
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The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms—the totality of...
– Emerson, “Nature”
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The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that...
– Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, “Preface”
philolzophy asked: Well I think typically I would suggest a 'blog bang' (when two blogs love each other very, very much) but that seems a little crass at the moment. ;)
Thanks for the love, though! <3
Thanks for the love, though! <3
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A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to...
– Emerson, “Nature”
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Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into...
– Emerson, “Nature”
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