#ali

Nothing is real. ↗

— John Lennon

#reality #truth #real

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#reality #real

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#politics #socialism #ideology

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. ↗

— Owen Jones

#inequality #politics #ideology

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. ↗

— P.D. James

#pain #innocence

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light. ↗

— Hedley Bull

#political #realist #anarchism

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#custom #law #reality #anarchism

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#languor #libraries #sexuality #dreams

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#insanity #madness #idea