Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart.
Søren Kierkegaard
2025
Author: parallelaesthetics
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
A.N. Whitehead
2023
The burden of the incommunicable.
Thomas De Quincey
2023
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
Emil Cioran
2024
So it is that after each night, facing a new day, the impossible necessity of dealing with it fills us with dread; exiled in light as if the world had just started, inventing the sun, we flee from tears—just one of which would be enough to wash us out of time.
Emil Cioran
2024
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. Lovecraft
2025
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emil Cioran
Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.
Emil Cioran
Perception and knowledge could never be the same.
Plato
2024
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