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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Under the spreading chestnut tree,
I sold you and you sold me.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four


inscendo:

by Miles Bowers



meistens:

(by CHUNKS!)


commovente:

Paris after the Great Flood of 1910


i confuse myself


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Passion

OK, this is something you’re really gonna need to be a good man. I’m serious. Passion, you need it in every aspect of your life, from the boardroom to the bedroom. If you’re working, do something you’re passionate about. If you’re really into, like, concrete and pavement, then go do construction with everything you have. If you like money and fucking people or whatever, go pursue Wall Street. Just don’t go through your life lilly-livered and spineless, always planting foot after foot on the road-most-taken, when your dreams ask you to go further, harder. Passion comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You need it. It should flow from you, with a musky scent. You need passion in your love life, home life, and nightlife. Don’t take your special someone to bed and be a cowardly fish-man. Show them the time of their life, even if only for five minutes before you pass out. You pack the passion, the passion flows from you, then it flows into the world. The world needs your passion, because there’s too many passionless people who will never find their way to anywhere.

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—  “The Sad-Ass Guide To Being A Man,“ William Cody Watson (via commovente)

"We hide in each other."
—  Rumi (via commovente)