"Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive."

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Source : "Song: "Amy aka Spent Gladiator I" ("Transcendental Youth")". 2012.

John Darnielle

#Stupid Quotes #Alive Quotes #Feels Quotes

“China will be the answer to Japan's problems.”
“Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.”
“I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.”
“Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.”
“Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.”

Source : Elsa Barker (1928). “The Cobra Candlestick”
“The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.”
“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”
“We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.”

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