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Tuesday's quote #12

"‘Belief’ – the cloak of confession – is too precious a resource to be squandered on the zealotry of idealism. What value is there to be extracted from a committed belief, from a last-ditch belief? Such things are for the strong (or for dupes), for the allies and slaves of light, for all those who do not rely on the subterranean passages beneath belief to avoid the panoptic apparatuses."  Nick Land, Shamanic Nietzsche

Tuesday's quote #11

 "This is a story about people who like to waste time. Waste my time, waste your time, waste their time. But time is against them. Time is everyone's master, including them." - the spoken introduction to the song "Tick Tock" by Death in June. Lyrics by Douglas Pearce.

Tuesday's quote #10

 "Die Klaas, hij voelde zich een Dante Die Pier wou Casanova zijn En ik, de superarrogante Ik dacht dat ik mezelf kon zijn" Jacques Brel, Burgerij

Tuesday's quote #9

 "One day I will die of cancer." Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp

Tool - 10000 days (Wings for Marie)

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Tool - 10000 Days (Wings for Marie Pt. 2) We listen to the tales and romanticize How we'd follow the path of the hero Boast about the day when the rivers overrun How we'd rise to the height of our halo Listen to the tales as we all rationalize Our way into the arms of the savior Feigning all the trials and the tribulations None of us have actually been there Not like you Ignorant siblings at the congregation Gather around spewing sympathy Spare me None of them can even hold a candle up to you Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see But enough about the collective Judas Who could deny you were the one who illuminated Your little piece of the divine And this little light of mine A gift you passed onto me I'm gonna let it shine To guide you safely on your way Your way home Oh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down? Without you to guide them all to Zion? What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun? Other than tremble incessantly? High is the way, but all e...

Tuesday's quote #8

 "Surrealism lastly — to remain on the level of this prehistory of modernity — surrealism doubtless could not accord language a sovereign place, since language is a system and since what the movement sought was, romantically, a direct subversion of all codes — an illusory subversion, moreover, for a code cannot be destroyed, it can only be "played with" (...)" Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author

Tuesday's quote #7

 " To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives." Gilles Deleuze, in Nietzsche and Philosophy