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“Freedom? It is my final refuge, I forced myself to freedom and I bear it not like a talent but with heroism: I am heroically free. And I want the flow.” - Clarice Lispector.

Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.

Mimesis is one of the central questions an artist faces when they create: Is art a mere imitation of life, or, like a river, is it a representation that flows out of the larger thing? How are we to represent our experience of the world? According to Plato, making art is by nature imitation, since the things we perceive are only partial... See more

corpses walk among us. they might look like you and i but in truth, they are contaminated by a disease that has turned them into empty shells, mannequins masquerading as people. richard hofstadter had a word for this sickness- anti-intellectualism- but i call it the death of our nafsaad. of our person-hoods.

there are people trying very hard to make us feel shame for wanting to contextualize our existence.

Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.

This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.

we wanted to be entertained. And it had to be with as little effort and inconvenience as possible. It was the same with everything. I hardly read books anymore; if there was a newspaper around I would prefer to read that. And the threshold just kept rising. It was idiotic because this life gave you nothing, it only made time pass. If we saw a good... See more