Aliciaavram

EMIL M. CIORAN

The Trouble with Being Born, or De l’inconvénient d’être né (1998), translated by Richard Howard;

original photos and edit

I can not believe Hozier has the audacity to drop a song like Almost (Sweet Music) and then tell us we have to wait until March for the rest of the album

If an 👽’s first contact with us was on 🎃 they would be really confused.

“Oh, my beautiful broken white rose! Don’t give up on your dreams, in achieving them you are so close.”

— Girl followed by shadows 

“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via books-n-quotes)

my last two brain cells

come along with me

“We know that morality does actually need remote and general standards, and must sometimes demand actions which no reasonable person at the time would consider. We know that a morality which never shocks anybody dwindles into etiquette. … All the same, ideals which nobody can translate into action are wasted.”

— Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter, 9