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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster; for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
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MUSIC: Iannis Xenakis, Jóhann JóhannssonKrzysztof Penderecki, Mortan Feldman, Angel Olsen, 🎵🎼🎹

MOVIES: Irreversible, Come and See, Apocalypse Now, Life is Worth Losing, The Comedy (2011), Alien (1979), The Thing, The Shining, The Dark Knight, The Sunset Limited, Old Boy, 📺

BOOKS: The Trial and Death of Socrates, Beyond Good and Evil, The Divine Comedy📖 

DISORDERS: Psychosomatic Pain, Panic, Depression, Schizoaffective 🤯

HOBBIES: Writing, Video Editing / Creation, Music, Art in General🎻📹📚

BELIEFS: Nihilism, Taoism, Socratic Deconstructionism, Negative Utilitarianism, Veganism, Antinatalism, 🧐🤔


"It is only great painthat slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewoodthat forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'but I know that it makes us deeper. Friedrich Nietzsche

Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden… What I say today, and what I heard, exists and cries and howls beyond this garden, which is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth.” ― Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.
― Thomas Ligotti

He who is not afraid of death, enters a house engulfed in flames; he who is not afraid of death, jumps without hesitation into a turbulent flood; he who is not afraid of death, charges into a dense hail of bullets; he who is not afraid of death, fights unarmed against thousands of armored titans; in summary, he who does not fear death is the only one who can do something for others, bleed for others, and has, at the same time, the only happiness, the only desirable good in this world: undisturbed peace of heart.
― Philipp Mainländer

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
" 
― WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE's "Macbeth"

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.

― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


Not really a person, not really a thing, unknown to be really real [ . . . ] @W.U.L.D.: Incorporated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMKKhKcUB7M


























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