February 2012
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“Así, no sabiendo creer en Dios, y no pudiendo creer en una suma de animales, me...”
– Fernando Pessoa. El libro del desasosiego
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My father asked me to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. That was about two weeks ago and I still haven’t made the first call. I don’t even know where to start. Last night I took the phone book and looked for “therapists/psychiatrists”, there were like a hundred of them. How am I supposed to pick one? Just flicking through the pages made me dizzy. Besides, I’ve...
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“¿Qué necesidad hay de que haya ni Dios, ni mundo, ni nada? ¿Por qué ha de haber...”
– Miguel de Unamuno
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“[…]que dentro de unos pocos minutos ella misma será reducida a un...”
– Elfriede Jelinek, La pianista
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“When shall we meet again? When will the earthy taste of your lips come again to...”
– Antonin Artaud, Art and Death
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“I’m 22 years old. I don’t trust anyone. I was diagnosed with borderline...”
– Anonymous suicide note
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Aunque no puedo decir que la odio, nunca he amado a mi madre. Nunca. Es un ser humano déspota y vil. Siempre lo he tenido por tal, desde muy niña. La diferencia entre aquel entonces y ahora es que ya no me siento culpable al reconocerlo, ni ante mí ni ante el resto del mundo. Y está bien que sea así.
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“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
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“The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another...”
– Yo-Yo Ma
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“Yo era una contradicción en esencia, como suelen decir. La gente me consideraba...”
– Henry Miller
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“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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“I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feeling for...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“My dearest Andrew,
It seems as if I have been spending all my life apologizing...”
– Single female, age 21
These suicide notes were gathered at the coroners’ offices by a suicidologist/psychiatrist who asked to be anonymous. He edited identifying details out of the compiled manuscript, and we changed the names. But the text of each letter plus the age and sex given are real....
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Martha, I love you very much. I think you’re one of the greatest pianist of the 20th century and also an admirably woman. Nevertheless, Artur Rubisntein’s record of Chopin Piano Concerto N° 1 with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and the New Symphony Orchesta of London in 1961 is unbeatable. I’m deeply sorry.
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Simple explanations
I’ve been reading Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus very carefully, and though his sharp intelligence, depth and arguing capability are undeniable, the treatment he gives to this book’s subject makes me think that maybe Albert missed one little detail: He who wants to die wants to die and that’s it. There are no arguments written on the labyrinth’s walls. The space that...
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“Everybody else was normal. Life was beautiful for them. They could stand in line...”
– “South of no North” - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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“Ningún juego te hará olvidar: tu alma es una máquina fría, un lúcido registro....”
– Julio Cortázar
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“alguna vez
alguna vez tal vez
me iré sin quedarme
...”
– Alejandra Pizarnik
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I'm tired of being so endlessly sad.
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“… y que en todo caso había un solo túnel, oscuro y solitario; el mío, el túnel...”
– Ernesto Sabato, El Túnel
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“Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself...”
– Jack Handey
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“En los años jóvenes veneramos y despreciamos careciendo aún de aquel arte de la...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Más allá del bien y del mal
Este fragmento me recuerda (un poco) a mí misma. Y también a alguien a quien me parezco (otro poco). Lástima el empeño en pretender que jugamos para bandos distintos.
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“El fetichismo por el cabello humano ha tenido sus raíces desde los antiguos...”
– Wikipedia: Sobre la Tricofilia
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