I want to live only for ecstasy...
small doses, moderate loves, all half-shades, leave me cold. I like extravagance. letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

I noticed that
I miss you even when we are in the same room.

Happy Birthday
I love you.

To live means to experience--
through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life; therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested ( Read more... )

You left me in such a hurry...
why?

We believe that we know
something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

With a new year...
there is no limitation.

Mere opinions,
in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be ( Read more... )

Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian
protest against a closed society, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small group. Only their ideas and publications counted. We couldn't publish almost anything. Then, I said: Let's do literature... without doing literature! Let's write... without actually writing anything. How? Simply: literature ( Read more... )

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one,
and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does the mad myth signify? Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for ( Read more... )