Jean-Paul Sartre

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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ― Jean-Paul Sartre

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Georges Bataille

September 18, 2019 CharlesLeave a comment

I already knew this immense tenderness, which is only the last degree of sorrow… I knew then, already, that the intimacy of things is death. — Georges Bataille, L’Impossible, translation by Robert Hurley. (Editions de Minuit, April 1, 1962) Originally published 1947.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Georges Bataille

March 9, 2017 CharlesLeave a comment

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. — Georges Bataille

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The Mermaid

“Her eyes were the color of faraway love.” Pablo Neruda, “The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks” “What’s taking you so long?” She had asked, leading the way to the swimming hole. Her dark eyes tossed him an impatient look over her shoulder. She was clutching a beach towel, and wearing a two-piece bathing […]

The Old Man and The Sea

after Ernest Hemingway Charles Thomas pulled the rowboat through the wet sand and down to the surf. Each spring he couldn’t help but remember how the story was told to him. As a young boy, she used to take him to a fishing hole she knew of which was surrounded by fruit trees. There, beneath […]

She Used to Call Me Baby

“Hey baby, when I write, I’m the hero of my shit.” Charles Bukowski There’s nothing like an itch you can’t scratch. On those Saturday nights, when I got itchy, I would drive down to this seedy, little bar on the corner of Way-South and West Street. It had a gravel parking lot that was occasionally […]

The Diner: Christa

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” Albert Camus She lie in bed waiting for the alarm to sound. Her eyes wandered slowly around the room as she listened to the winter wind whistling outside the apartment. The darkness seemed like a physical thing—shadows moved upon the wall like pale ghosts. They […]

The Three Blind Mice

Once upon a time there were three blind mice. Ratso, Fatso, and Ifso and they all lived in a hole in the wall. They didn’t get out very much and more or less had to settle for whatever crumb fell at the foot of their door. One day Ratso had an idea. “Come on boys, […]

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The Vale of Soul-Making

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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