September 2010
“You’re lovely, but you’re empty”, he went on. “One couldn’t die for you.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via obliteratedheart)
“Crystallization is a concept, developed in 1822 by the French writer Stendhal, which describes the process, or mental metamorphosis, in which unattractive characteristics of a new love are transformed into perceptual diamonds of shimmering beauty.”
—Crystallization (love) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via palmsies)
“I had no interests. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.”
—Charles Bukowski (via funeral, expose) (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“A free man?—There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves of money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or the threatening law, to act against their nature.”
—Hecabe 1 to Agamemnon. Euripides, Hecabe 864 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
