April 2012
12 posts
March 2012
54 posts
vegans that smoke cigarettes.
that’s the joke
is it possible to have a love affair with a state?
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
—Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via certifiedcynic)
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
—Lemony Snicket
