“Science, a typically despised and misanthropic discipline, tends to the opposite assumption, emphasising the harsh indifference of reality to human interests and expectations, with the implication that the lessons it teaches us can be administered with unlimited brutality. We can dash ourselves against reality if we insist, but we cannot realistically anticipate some merciful moderation of the consequences. Nature does not scold or punish, it merely breaks us, coldly, upon the rack of our untruths.”
— Not the science of misanthropy, but the misanthropy of science (via computationsfromchairmanhal10000)
(Source: 011011100110100101101000011010)
12:42 pm • 31 January 2018 • 5 notes
“you will recognize happiness
when you see it die”
— Georges Bataille, ‘The Dawn’ from The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille (via my-nothing-self)
(Source: away-from-all-suns, via criminal-delirium)
2:10 pm • 28 January 2017 • 887 notes
“
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
”
— Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole (via arpeggia)
4:42 am • 6 January 2017 • 861 notes
“As far as I was concerned life was gradually going to take back everything it had given me: it had already begun doing so.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, from
The Woman Destroyed, transl.
Patrick O'Brian
(Pantheon, 1987)
(Source: metaphorformetaphor)
2:49 am • 5 January 2017 • 61 notes
cavinmorrisgallery:
Lubos Plny
The Treatment of Past Lives, 2007
Mixed media/paper
33 x 23.5 inches
83.8 x 59.7 cm
LuP 38
(via dadoodoflow)
2:33 pm • 22 December 2016 • 22 notes
amare-habeo:
Vladimír Komárek (Czech, 1928-2002)
Mirror, 1972
Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
3:26 pm • 22 November 2016 • 60 notes
