"The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists, and a fair number of these were quite good. But when art, instead of being understood as creation, became merely an expression of feelings, then anyone could be an artist, because everyone has feelings."
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. trans. Richard Zenith.
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"The outer world exists like an actor on stage: it’s there but is something else."
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. trans. Richard Zenith.
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"To speak is to show too much consideration for others. It’s when they open their mouths that fish, and Oscar Wilde, are fatally hooked."
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. trans. Richard Zenith.
Okay this was actually quite funny. x)
"… ships passing in the night that neither signal nor recognize each other."
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. trans. Richard Zenith.
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"But the calling back of the dead, or the desirability of calling them back, was a ticklish matter, after all. At bottom, and badly confessed, the desire does not exist; it is a misapprehension precisely as impossible as the thing itself, as we should soon see if nature once let it happen. What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so."
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain.
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"No silent films were shot in colour but the pictures through a window are that. Everything moves in curious clockwork animation…Only half an inch of glass separates me from the silent world where I do not exist. They don’t know I’m here but I have begun to be as intimate with them as any member of the family. More so, since as their lips move with goldfish bowl pouts, I am the scriptwriters and I can put words in their mouths."
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body.
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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
Sylvia Plath.
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"This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the non-existence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted."
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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I’ve given the present away (the top Totoro!) so I can post this photo now. :D
Howl and Calcifer <3
I still love Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl best, but he looks so very pretty here. <3
Studio Ghibli keychains! n_n
<333333 They are selling at a local bookstore. Very tempting.
