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“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.” MILAN KUNDERA (book of laughter and forgetting)

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” Ernest Hemingway (via kitty-en-classe)

Hail him

(via kitty-en-classe)

“Memory invents another present.
As it invents myself.
What has been lived
blurs with today.” Octavio Paz, from “Preparatory Exercise” in A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Yeah it does.

(Source: litverve, via tempdist)

“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion — these are the two things that govern us.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories (via orphic)

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“Want to keep the Muslims busy? Say something about their Prophets, or just burn scriptures. If you want to go the extra mile, make a film.
They’ll protest and argue and burn shit up and fight amongst each other in their respective sects, liberals versus extremists versus moderates. Rinse and repeat.” Taken from the book ‘How deteriorate nations and rule the world’ (via orphic)