February 2012
55 posts
Because in that moment you are free, free from your own thoughts, your own contemplation, your mind is free to go as it pleases, to explore and ponder this new world, dimension, that has been set before you. Done with such utter elegance. It demands your entire attention, your entire contemplative state. You are drawn in, and for as long as the artist let’s you, you are free from the...
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
– Fernando Pessoa (via kiltroutgore)
Reading hurts.
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
But i love it too much to stop.
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an...”
– Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words (via brosbeforehos)
