si sapis, sis apis.
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"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."
— Michel Foucault (via nevver)(via nevver)
"Deep in our sub-conscious, we are told
Lie all our memories, lie all the notes
Of all the music we have ever heard
And all the phrases those we loved have spoken,
Sorrows and losses time has since consoled,
Family jokes, out-moded anecdotes
Each sentimental souvenir and token
Everything seen, experienced, each word …"
— Noël Coward, from “Nothing is Lost” (via growing-orbits)
Lie all our memories, lie all the notes
Of all the music we have ever heard
And all the phrases those we loved have spoken,
Sorrows and losses time has since consoled,
Family jokes, out-moded anecdotes
Each sentimental souvenir and token
Everything seen, experienced, each word …"
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
— Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre [1847] (via thebookfawn)(Source: quotestheywrote, via thebookfawn)
"[We were all out of touch but somehow permanent.] It was the world that had changed."
— Loren Eisley, from The Brown Wasps (thanks, ukaberry)(Source: the-final-sentence)
"Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
— Andrei Tarkovsky (via bbook)(Source: theinsatiables, via bbook)
