September 2011
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The Jezabels - Endless Summer
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Track: Endless Summer
Artist: The Jezabels
Taken From: Prisoner (2011)
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
—Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via theweightofemptiness)
“I’ve always liked the time before dawn because there’s no one around to remind me who I’m supposed to be so it’s easier to remember who I am.”
— Brian Andreas (via creatingaquietmind)
Its been a rough few days, back from the snow and
am getting depressed, coming back to the real world, big rush to
get back for a interview, but my heads a little clearer tonight,
Guess Ill see how this weeks pans out.
