April 2011
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fuckyeahexistentialism: Although in an abstract way he disapproves of cruelty, he cannot tell whether by nature he is cruel or kind. He is simply nothing. He assumes that people from whom cruelty is demanded in the line of duty, people who work in slaughterhouses, for instance, grow carapaces over their souls. Habit hardens: it must be so in most cases, but it does not seem to be so in his. He...
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“Of course, while the murders in southern Afghanistan reflect most glaringly upon...”
– The NYT Magazine article by Luke Mogelson, “A Beast in the Heart of Every Fighting Man,” on the Fifth Stryker Brigade’s murder of civilians and what this story tells us about the nature of war, is the must-read longform of the week.  
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via misswallflower)
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“I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates....”
– Kathy Acker
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“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
–  Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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Listen TOKiMONSTA - Breath On My Contacts
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“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it...”
– Don DeLillo, Underworld (via thetreeskeepgrowing)
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“I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover 
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There is nothing for you here anymore. We know it, so go home.  I am done.  
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“Poverty is more than deprivation, it is a state of constant want and acute...”
– Hannah Arendt (On Revolution)
Apr 26th
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“Our forces are not well experienced, they are learning as they go and we are...”
– Rare view from Libya’s western mountains shows rebel gains against Qaddafi
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“I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s...”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan 
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“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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“I’ve been playing it through over and over again in my head for the past 16...”
– Cal Perry (via neighborhoodr-damascus)
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“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid...”
– Hermann Hesse  (via elige)
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“If someone else were to approach him and vigorously seek to win his friendship,...”
– Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel 
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“And in every detail of your life, if no ultimate purpose redeemed it, there was...”
– George Orwell, A Clergyman’s Daughter 
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