professional human

173.–Being deep and appearing deep.–Whoever knows he is deep strives for clarity, whoever would like to appear deep strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. 232.–Dreams.–We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way–not at all or in an interesting manner. 249.–Positive and Negative.–The thinker needs nobody to refute him: for that he suffices himself. 322.–Death.–The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity–and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. 231.–“Thorough.”–Those slow in knowledge suppose that slowness belongs to knowledge. 381.–On the question of being understandable.–One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. It is not by any means necessarily an objection to a book when anybody finds it impossible to understand: perhaps that was part of the author’s intention–he did not want to be understood by just “anybody.”

Do your future self a favor and work hard now.

me @ myself at 6pm: okay i’m going to bed early today

I like my whisky like I like my men.

Somewhere between emotional and emotionless.

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just