The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile. Love is a sacred art. To be in love is to be in a holy relationship.
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If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via theoldludwigvan)

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“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” 

 
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco (via nevver)

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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoir (via human-voices)

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Top 10

I recently read this: http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2009/06/top-10-existential-movies-of-all-time.html

It’s a list of the top 10 existential movies ever made. I’ve never really seen existentialism as a genre of film, but no matter. While the list is pretty decent, I decided to make my own list from the “genre”. The rankings are based on my personal connection to these individual films, nothing else.

1. Lost in Translation: Far and beyond, my favorite film of all time. All of the character subtleties and nuances still move me. I’ve never wanted to get married, but if Charlotte existed and I met her, it would be over.

2. Before Sunset/Before Sunrise: I know these are two movies, but I can’t separate them. There is not one cliche in these films. Romance films on top of their game.

3. Up In The Air: One of the few movies on this list that I got to see in theaters. I felt such a strong connection to George Clooney’s character that the movie still upsets me when I think about it.

4. Memento: I have a theory that it’s impossible to dislike this movie. To this day it’s still the biggest mind-fuck I’ve ever experienced in cinema. If you only see one movie from this list, see this one.

5.Apocalypse Now: Outstanding film in every way. Coppola’s finest.

6. Wall-E: Probably my my favorite Pixar film, and I love Pixar. The future here is an absolute existential nightmare.

7. Mulholland Drive: I loathed this movie for a long time, and passed it off to be some pretentious drivel, but for some reason I kept revisiting it. Over and over I would leave mad, not knowing what the hell I just saw. Then one day… it all clicked. My favorite from Lynch.

8. Children of Men: Gorgeous film with a lot to say. The scene where Clive Owen is carrying that baby through all of that gunfire and explosions, followed by that ceasefire and silence where the soldiers from both sides just stare at the baby in awe… WOW. It’s the most beautiful scene I’ve ever watched in any film.

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: A film with many complexities and layers. It strongly illustrates human nature’s undying hopefulness. Tragic… or is it?

10. The Truman Show: Once in awhile, I feel as paranoid as Jim Carrey does near the end of the film. An incredible movie that one can watch no matter what type of mood they’re in. 

11. The Matrix: This movie defined my childhood and made me want to pursue acting. I was blown away by all of the special effects and the martial arts, but fortunately as I grew up, this movie grew with me. And boy, did it grow fast. It’s always interesting to catch yourself watching a movie for totally different reasons than you used to.

12. Groundhog Day: Surprisingly stocked full of existential questions and dilemma’s. This movie asks a lot of very important questions, and attempts to solve them as best as it can. As with Memento, I don’t think there’s anyone that can dislike this movie. Funny, charming, and challenging, if you want it to be.

13. Fight Club: Grimy, brutal, and oh so relevant (still) to modern day culture. This movie has not aged a day. If anything it’s more relevant now than ever.

14. Magnolia: Great ensemble cast (including Tom Cruise’s best work to date). Beautiful moments all over. Although we only have a limited time with each person in the film, there’s more than enough time to make you care about each of them.

15. 2001: A Space Odyssey: The scope of this film is enormous. To say that this film has a lot to say would be overstating the obvious. I plan to revisit this film many more times to truly get a better sense of what Kubrick was saying. 

Honorable mentions:

-Almost anything Jon-Luc Godard has directed. I could have made a list of just this. Breathless is my favorite. (Same goes for Truffaut’s films - 400 Blows)
-Being John Malkovich
-American Beauty
-Waking Life
-Donnie Darko
-Moon

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
Sartre (via odettenoire)

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So, the whole idea, you see, is that everything’s falling apart, so don’t try and stop it. When you’re falling off a precipice, it doesn’t do you any good to hang onto a rock that’s falling with you. See? But everything is doing that. And so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. Don’t do it. And then you’ll be able to do something interesting with the free energy.

Alan Watts (via cultureofresistance)

I’m not sure whether I love this quote or hate it. I think I agree, but I want to disagree so badly.

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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust (via ahnuhlycious)

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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
If, in everyday life, you are asked about continued existence after death by one of those people who would like to know everything but refuse to learn anything, the most appropriate and approximately correct reply is : ‘After your death you will be what you were before your birth.’ For this answer implies that it is preposterous to demand that a species of existence which had a beginning should not have an end; in addition, however, it contains a hint that there may be two kinds of existence and, correspondingly, two kinds of nothingness.
Schopenhauer (via thewholeblinkingcosmos)

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