Artists Need To Lay Their Soul Bare For The World To Mock

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Unknown

things that are scary that you just have to get over at some point

being wrong (as distinct from)

other people having different opinions from you (as distinct from)

minor disagreements

the eternal uncertainty caused by living in a universe where luck exists (e.g. Just Anything could happen to you for no reason)

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i've had this list open for so long but i can't think of anything else

i sorta feel like most other fears are kind of fine to have

oh like spiders i guess

i’m okay with change and i’m fine if things are no longer the same i embrace change

No offense but how are girls so damn pretty like I can’t go one day w/o seeing a girl so pretty that i’m partially reborn like no offense but can girls really chill.

“No, I’m not the tough kind. Where are the oaths I made two years ago, on the freshly shut cover of Zarathustra? Why did I wander aimlessly in the street last night, alone, miserable because I was unable to cry and terrified at the same time that I might have been about to? Why in the evening, when I lay my head on my pillow, is it like collapsing in exhaustion after being chased?”

— Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

breakfast

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.