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Ominous or premonitory?

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6 months ago
Franz Kafka, From “Diaries, 1910-1923”

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

6 months ago
Fyodor Dostoevsky, From The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

6 months ago

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)

6 months ago

“…It’s as if my heart is surrounded by a hundred petals.”

6 months ago
Anaïs Nin, From A Diary Entry Featured In The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

6 months ago
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters To Vera

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

6 months ago

La pureté est absolument invulnérable en tant que pureté (...). Mais elle est éminemment vulnérable en ce sens que toute atteinte du mal la fait souffrir (S. Weil, Pesanteur, 1943, p. 79).


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6 months ago

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

6 months ago
Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

6 months ago
Kurdish is a language in which words often break down into image. A friend, haur̄ê (هاوڕێ), shares your path. A lover, hauser (ھاوسەر), shares your head. I do not wait for you, çauer̄êm (چاوه‌ڕێم), I put my eyes in the road. You do not disappoint me, destî şkawm (دەستی شکاوم), you break my hands. No one confesses, danî pêdabnî (دانی پێدابنی), one steps on one’s teeth. To comfort, dłdanewe (دڵدانەوە), one gives back the heart. This element of Kurdish delights me: to crack a word open and peer inside it, to find a world within a word, a world where the abstract is embodied. The Kurdish language calls the body into every conversation, fashioning idea from body. There is no hiding the body, not even to protect it.

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

6 months ago

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

6 months ago
Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir Of Moods And Madness

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

6 months ago
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

7 months ago

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

8 months ago

Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. - Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German historian and philosopher

4 years ago

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

4 years ago

ancient greek word of the night: νυκτόμαντις (nyktomantis), one who prophesies by night


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4 years ago

moon·struck

/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/

adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love. 

4 years ago

or·phic

/ˈôrfik/

adjective mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

4 years ago

Portugese

ne·fe·li·ba·ta

/nefilēbätä/ 

noun a cloud walker; an individual who lives in the “clouds” of her own imagination or dreams. 

4 years ago

Ergoter

- Dénominal de ergot, petit doigt surmonté d’un ongle pointu qui sert au combat chez les oiseaux mâles.

-(1534) Du latin ergo (« donc ») dont les docteurs scolastiques faisaient grand usage, souvent à vide. On le retrouve dans le fameux cogito (Cogito ergo sum) de Descartes, dans un tout autre contexte.

♦Contester quelque chose avec des raisonnements spécieux ; discuter sur des futilités ; chicaner

♦Contredire quelqu'un avec une obstination lassante sur des minuties en lui opposant des arguments excessivement subtils et captieux

Ergotage, subst. masc.Manie, action d'ergoter; arguties.

Ergoterie, subst. fém.Ergotage. Savez-vous bien que le bon sens militaire s'offense de ces sortes d'ergoteries? Tu n'aimes pas, tu n'aimes pas! Qu'est-ce que ces ergotages?

chicaner (vieux) - chinoiser (familier) - chipoter (familier) - disputailler - pointiller - ratiociner (littéraire) - vétiller


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4 years ago

Captieux

• fin XIVe; lat. captiosus, de capere « prendre »

♦ Littér. Qui tend, sous des apparences de vérité, à surprendre, à induire en erreur. ⇒ fallacieux, insidieux, spécieux.  Raisonnement, discours captieux. « Un argument captieux et difficile à débrouiller » (Taine). — (Personnes) Un raisonneur, un philosophe captieux.  ⇒ sophiste

● captieux, captieuse adjectif (latin captiosus, trompeur) Qui vise à tromper par des apparences de raison, de vérité ; fallacieux : Argument captieux.

-Qui tend à tromper, qui séduit par de belles, de fausses apparences. Argument, raisonnements captieux; questions captieuses :

-[En parlant d'une pers.] Qui induit en erreur ou cherche à le faire par de faux raisonnements.

-Captieusement, adv.De façon captieuse, insidieuse. Interroger captieusement (Ac. 1878-1932). Déjà tant de volupté se glissait captieusement sous l'idylle

Synonymes : - artificieux - fallacieux - insidieux - sophistiqué - spécieux - trompeur

Contraires : - correct - fondé - franc - honnête - juste - sincère - vrai


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