If I wished to shake this tree with my hand, I should not be able to do so… –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore
Tag Archives: joy
One quick, perhaps enduring note on the shared world
As above
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When you left…
…tremors of love through your brief, / Undeniable selves…. –Mark Strand, “The Continuous Life”More
Something Different from Happiness
I chase after my work! –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore
Clearly enough
Is there not also still lacking–humanity itself? –NietzscheMore
I wish I could see the sky from here
The clearest sky is plenty opaqueMore
Expecting the dark
So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. –KierkegaardMore
A career in nonsense
If others saw us at our business its absurdity would shineMore
Slow wilting is what it is called
So many flowers, stepped upon and decayed before I had a chance to see themMore
No aspect of the thing before us
Only a catastrophe can save us. –Zizek, paraphrasing Heidegger, who said in his Der Spiegel inteview, “only a god can save us.”More
Some dumb idea
This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out. –HeraclitusMore
Ben She Said (a Monologue)
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence… –KierkegaardMore
Two Notes on (Overcoming) Nihilism II of II
There was another, even more unexpected guest behind him when I opened the doorMore
Two Notes on (Overcoming) Nihilism I of II
There was another, even more unexpected guest behind him when I opened the doorMore
Charged for every apple
There will be no ‘other world’More
