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An Existential Life: All man’s alibi’s are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his...

fuckyeahexistentialism:

All man’s alibi’s are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his condition; no original sin; no heredity and environment; no race, no caste, no father and no mother; no wrong-headed education, no governess, no teacher; not even an impulse or a disposition, a complex or a childhood trauma….

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There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

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-  Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (via aperfectcommotion)

(Source: mythologyofblue)

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zenlikeme: Proverbs 31:25 I’m obviously not a Christian but I can appreciate good literature when I see it.

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proustitute: Portrait of Susan Sontag by Annie Leibovitz (via; read)
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