we hold our hats while the days fly past

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

we love truth and beauty, but when was the last time you hyped up goodness? when was the last time you rejoiced over something good? when was the last time you were the good thing that happened to another person? what if you were the good thing that happened to another person? what then?

He gave me no assurance. No fixed land. Always one must throw oneself into the wave.

palacio de cristal in el retiro park (madrid, spain), built in 1887 by architect ricardo velazquez bosco