fuckyeahexistentialism:

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.

-Albert Camus, “Three Interviews” in Lyrical and Critical Essays

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.

- Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too. 

- Albert Camus, The Stranger  

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

- Franz Kafka, The Collected Aphorisms

i12bent:

The Dead…

Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher-novelist and Nobel Laureate - died this day in 1960, aged 46, in a car accident…

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ― Albert Camus

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Dashing, through the snow. 

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young man]

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SHUT UP.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

J. Robert Oppenheimer

An incredibly intelligent physicist w/ a fantastic set of eyes and true ability to rock a hat. He ushered in a new era by leading Manhattan project, but was tragically betrayed by the populist furor of the Red Scare. He was brilliant and sensitive. It takes a true badass become death, destroyer of worlds.

HOT DAMN.

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Kafka.

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i12bent:

Aldous Huxley, English novelist and essayist, was born July 26, 1894 (d. 1963). Huxley’s modern fame rests on his dystopian novel Brave New World (Shakespeare quote, natch) and on his acid dropping account The Doors of Perception…

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” — Aldous Huxley

Photo by Dorothy Wilding, 1930 - chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount (NPG, London)

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mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Hermann Rorschach, c. 1910. This Swiss psychiatrist developed the famous inkblot test that bears his name. We see two horses boxing each other, and one extremely hot Freudian. 

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Lewis Thornton Powell… even if he was a conspirator.

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He was one of four people hanged for the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, which makes him a pretty bad dude. However, you cannot deny he was pretty darn good looking. Ah, why must it always be the bad boys…

This seriously just looks like fashion photography.

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