February 2012
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Feb 25th
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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January 2012
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
December 2011
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‘That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes’ - François de La Rochefoucauld
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via naked-eye)
Nov 27th
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Nov 27th
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DoubleJointedConvict: Art →
doublejointedconvict: I’m currently reading “Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters/Seymour: An Introduction” by J.D Salinger and it’s gotten me thinking about art. I don’t want to sound cheesy, or emo, or “artsy”, or pretentious, or anything, but I think we’re all artists. I think that everyone, fundamentally, wants to do one thing, I think we all want to get to the end of our lives knowing we’ve...
Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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‘The world is a mirror of my freedom’  - Jean-Paul Sarte
Nov 10th
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‘These pains are birth pangs. The butterfly wants to break through his cocoon; he tears at it, he rends it: then he is blinded and confused by the unknown light, the realm of freedom’ - Friedrich Nietzsche
Nov 6th
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Nov 4th
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A Summary
I’ve decided that despite my usual posts of horribly pretentious philosophical quotes, music, artwork and poetry, I will take a more traditional stance with this one and actually talk about how October has treated me. I would usually resent anyone who complains publicly about personal issues, as in the majority of cases such words as ‘depression’ and ‘love’ are...
Nov 1st
October 2011
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‘However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself - ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography’ - Friedrich Nietzsche 
Oct 24th
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‘Supposing truth to be a woman - what? Is the suspicion not well founded that all philosophers, when they have been dogmatists, have had little understanding of women?’ - Friedrich Nietzsche 
Oct 9th
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September 2011
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Sep 25th
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‘Even if the world is in the right, it is always probable that dissentients have something worth hearing to say for themselves, and that truth would lose something by their silence’ - J. S. Mill
Sep 22nd
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‘And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music’ - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sep 11th
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August 2011
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oldjoyy: There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.   This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! - Emily Dickinson
Aug 21st
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Imagine there is a ticking time bomb with many lives at stake and…  ‘Suppose the only way to get the information from the terrorist suspect is not to torture him, but to torture his innocent 14 year-old daughter, would you do it?’ - Michael Sandel
Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th