“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it — don't cheat with it.” —Ernest Hemingway, died on this day, 1961

Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it. - Emil Cioran

“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.” - Fernando Pessoa

Nothing.

This.

"Of all that makes us suffer, nothing — so much as disappointment — gives us the sensation of at last touching Truth." - Emil Cioran

"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." ~ Henry Miller

“I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!” - Henry Miller 🖤

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten, lost, with no connection to anything real or useful I find myself, feel comforted. - Fernando Pessoa

“Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

I started drinking coffee again after quitting for 8 months, life has a positive now and then. 🖤☕️