“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.” ― William s. Burroughs The beauty of tiny apartments lies in the small details. The carpet carefully placed beside the bed, the tiny vase with fake flowers on the shelve, the big bed slapping you … Continue reading Size matters
She stopped for a brief moment, realizing the deep emptiness pushing harder and harder against her chest again and again, drawing attention to the smothering blackness eating her from the inside, reaching through the bones into the brain, poisoning it with thoughts, gnawing slowly at her soul. Her hearth had fallen out somewhere along the … Continue reading Introspection
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin Sometimes the world is too loud. Sometimes all you need is a little peace and quiet. Real quiet. Meaning no phone, no internet, no news, no TV shows, no … Continue reading Sisyphus
Con quel sorriso alla Dexter, ci osservavano dai loro giardini perfettamente curati. Indossavano gonne larghe anni ’50, rivestite di fiori bianchi. Le loro pettinature impeccabili incorniciavano quei visi pietrificati, accentuando quella felice espressione che pareva nascondere qualcosa. Dietro di loro s’innalzavano le villette azzurro pallido con finestre così pulite, che sembravano sparire, lasciando posto alle … Continue reading L’anno 3000
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote Exhaustion: it is a wonderful day outside; white light caresses every surface of the apartment and you lay on the bed covers. Your eyes are begging you … Continue reading Work
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature CoVid-19 the … Continue reading Al dente
“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters When I was a child everyone kept asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wish they had told me instead, … Continue reading Lemons
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.” ― Stephen King, It About a week ago I bought a copy of IT. Yes, I know I’m pretty late to the party, but it is one of those books that you have to read to know what everybody is talking about. I read my first Stephen … Continue reading The heater
“If all online products at all online stores are the same, then of course I’ll use a price-shopping Web site to find the cheapest product” ― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? It seems like nowadays everybody complaints about the damage to the environment and to small business owners caused by the shipping of very … Continue reading Online Shopping
“Not Cassius, perhaps; rather, your archetypal Dostoevsky student: starved, and in conflict with demons.” ― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl The right apartment size is supposed to be proportional to your income, number of family members and the region you live in. By thirty most people have already figured out which wheel of … Continue reading Getting an apartement
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