It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Quotes
Indescribable Relief
I haven’t said much about the election here. I think this says what I would say. Truth is spoken.
Beginnings
Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.
Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.
From John Dies at the End by David Wong
a barb of sorrow
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic – if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard
To Go
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
Sylvia Plath
Burn a Little Brighter
“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”
Jack Kerouac
Truth
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
Émile Zola
The Moment of Clarity
I open one eye
And I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
To make sure in the darkness that you were still there
And I have to admit I was just a little afraidBut then…
I had a little bit of luck you were awake I couldn’t take another moment aloneRoger Waters
“The Moment Of Clarity”
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You Feel The Days Slipping By
“You feel the days slipping by, elusive as slippery pink worms, through your fingers, and you wonder what you have for your years.”
Sylvia Plath
