“I Am Pulling ‘myself’ From The Magician’s Hat, Night After Night, And I Have The Scars To Prove

Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan

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You are the knife I turn inside myself.

Franz Kafka

“I started wishing on the stars in the sky instead. I said to the sun, tell me about the Big Bang. The sun said, ‘It hurts to become.‘”

— Andrea Gibson

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

//Casablanca

Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

(Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.” - Charles Bukowski

“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but it is always the blood of others. That is why some philosophers feel free to say just about anything.”

— Albert Camus, Actuelles I (via philosophybits)

when franz kafka said “you cannot write about salvation, you can only live it”