"I was held back by a secret fear that I might perhaps be like him [Friedrich Nietzsche], at least in regard to the 'secret' which had isolated him from his environment. Perhaps, who knows? he had had inner experiences, insights which he had unfortunately talked about, and had found out that no one understood him."
-- Carl Jung, talking about himself
"It is not the sight of a human creature which removes us from solitude, but the sight of one who is faithful and modest and helpful to us."
-- Epictetus, Discourses: Book 3, chapter 13
Constraint is the mother of desires.
-- D'Argens
Videogames, writing, reading, music, film, photography, cabaret, science, urban exploration, cats, toys, clothes, religion, philosophy, occult, etc.
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Every decade & every genre. I go through phases. Lotte Lenya, Robbie D & Jer Ber Jones, Dirty Sanchez, Squeaky Blonde, Liza Minelli, Marc Almond, Dalida, Tiga, Scissor Sisters, Soft Cell, Architecture In Helsinki, Ute Lemper, Niagara, Claudia Brucken, Frazier Chorus, Thompson Twins, Naked Eyes, Alphaville, Nina Simone, Paul Whiteman, Mechanical Cabaret, Opera, Bea Arthur, Bee Gees, Belle and Sebastian, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Eartha Kitt, Francois de Roubaix, Kudu, Ladytron, Nico, Plastic Operator, Sarah Cracknell, Swing Out Sister, etc.
The Loved One, "Metzengerstein" from Spirits of the Dead, Klute, Images, Joyhouse, Logan's Run, Harold and Maude, The Legend of Hell House, Daughters of Darkness, Eyes Wide Shut, Satan's Blood (Spain, 1977), Early John Waters, Zardoz, Dune, Children of Dune, Manhattan Murder Mystery
Space 1999 , Night Gallery, Logan's Run, Golden Girls, Star Trek: The Animated Series, CSI: Las Vegas, Weird Documentaries, Public Access, For the Love of Reason, Astronomy Shows, Nova, True Crime Shows, & PBS. CNN, C-Span, History Channel, Rosemary and Thyme, Mystery!, Charlie Rose, Stargate-SG1,Sesame Street. More often than not, my tiny old tv is being used by the Nintendo Wii.
Torah, How To Talk To Anyone About Practically Anything by Barbara Walters, Scientific American monthly, Anais Nin, Jean Genet, Ngaio Marsh, Noel Coward, H. Rider Haggard, Judaica, Occult, New authors and new ideas.
Delphine Seyrig, Alice Krige, Ann Firbanks, Barbara Bain, Kathy Griffin, my cats, Santiago Calatrava, Little Toby, Cuntessa, & Jackie Beat. Most of the others are on my friends list.
Our whole life is like a play.
-- Ben Jonson, Discoveries de Vita Humana
Almost the whole world are players.
-- Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon
Our happiness in this world depends chiefly upon the affections we are able to inspire.
-- De Praslin
How few friendships would be lasting if we knew what our best friends say of us in our absence.
-- Pascal
Hope is a sarcasm.
-- Mercier, La fille du pretre
Coming events cast their shadows before.
-- Campbell, Lochiel's Warning
I had a dream which was not all a dream.
-- Byron, Darkness
Every great passion is but a prolonged hope.
-- Frucheres
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
-- Eliot, Daniel Deronda. Bk. VIII, ch. 65
It's better to love today than tomorrow. A pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost.
-- A. Richard
Love knoweth no lawes.
-- Lyly, Euphues
We condemn vice and extol virtue only through interest.
-- Rochefoucauld
Art is power.
-- Longfellow, Hyperion. Bk. III, ch. 5
Architecture is frozen music.
-- Schelling, Philosophy of Art. 1. 576
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintillian
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
-- Juvenal, Satirae. vii, 56
Illusion on a ground of truth is the secret of the fine arts.
-- Joubert
A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures.
-- Bacon, Essay XXVII. Of Friendship
The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end is art.
-- Emerson, Art
Experience teaches that a good memory is generally joined to a weak judgement.
-- Montaigne, Essais. i, 9
Love cannot be mixed with fear.
-- Seneca, Epistolae ad Lucilium. xlvii.
Stolen kisses are always sweeter.
-- Hunt, The Indicator.
Love begins too well to end well.
-- Daumas
Happiness seems made to be shared.
-- Corneille, Notes par Rochefoucauld
Self sufficiency is a sordid achievement.
-- Eugene Savov, Theory of Interaction