September 2011
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
“I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.”
—Charles Bukowski
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
—Fernando Pessoa
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
