August 2009
48 posts
There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
— Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Lewis Carroll was a mathematics professor at Oxford University. After reading "Alice in Wonderland," Queen Victoria sent a letter to him asking for another of his books to read. Carroll sent her a book on algebra.
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“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via s0ak) (via shaneguiter) (via foxxx)
