"Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough." -- Emil Cioran

“Only violent and dangerous contradictions, insoluble internal antinomies, are indicative of a fruitful intellectual life, because only in them can inner turmoil and excess be realized.” Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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Tennis’s Connection With Ballet

hace mucho que no fumo pero tuve que comprarme puchos sueltos porque estar en una reposera viendo como cae la tarde del verano escuchando lana del rey lo merece

"The spiritual decline of the Earth has progressed so far that peoples are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength; the strength that makes it possible even to see the decline and to appraise it as such." - Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics.

She’s reading a dystopian Swedish novel, smoking a cigarette in 72-degree summer weather. You’re drinking a few beers waiting for the football match. You make €22,000 a year. You’re 31 and still waiting to have kids because the time isn’t ‘right.

Stop caring. That’s literally all you have to do.

“El pesimista es incapaz del suicidio, esa gran solución que constituye un horizonte de posibilidades incluso para el existencialista más acérrimo. De modo irónico, es la misantropía fuertemente arraigada del pesimista lo que lo mantiene vivo. Cansado del drama demasiado humano

Schopenhauer, 1811 (early Berlin period): "The streets of Berlin are wide and straight, but the people hurry past one another without a glance. One feels more alone in this crowd than in true solitude."

Paul Newman. 12 pack of beer a day for decades. Chained smoked. No morning routine. No supplements. No sun gazing. No fasting. No ice baths. No journaling. Lived artistically and handsome to the ripe old age of 83. When men were men.

If you see me smoking in Southern Europe with my 911 targa outside and a 10/10 blonde complaining that I haven't kissed her today, just leave me be. I am exactly where I want to be...

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

The more of the world you see, the clearer it becomes: many people have no real inner life, no depth, no genuine emotion, no freedom from their patterns. That’s why a truly sensitive young man most of the time stands alone

The sensitive young man carries a unique type of pain, he longs for the past but has hope he'll find it once more in the future.

Schopenhauer, later in life, portrayed himself as an -eagle in solitude- when he grew more and more detached from people. Reflecting his inner world: "He himself is always in the pure cool mountain air and now beholds the sun when all below is still engulfed in dead of night."

“In living close to nature, one discovers that happiness does not consist in maximizing pleasure. It consists in tranquility. Once you have enjoyed tranquility long enough, you acquire actually an aversion to the thought of any very strong pleasure“ Theodore Kaczynski