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Lines 207–210 from Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. The quote is most known for its discourse throughout the film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and at times, also speaks a great deal to the oracles of my life. I thought to have a random posting today, so bear your eyes and mind on a series of existential quotes that I’ve scribbled down in my handy moleskine throughout the last couple weeks paired with some nihilistic style artworks from New Jersey artist Matt Leines. Make something prosperous out of this collaboration!

Yes

Matt Leines, whose work takes influence from Hermetic Sciences to Hulk Hogan and Harald Hardrada to He-Man. His drawings show us a glimpse into a fantasy world full of carefully depicted arrangement’s of strange beasts and mustached men. Leines presents himself as an insider in an outsider’s world, serving as both creator and narrator. His emphatically meticulous lines speak to surreal dream escapes all the while maintaining a folklore aesthetic. Much can be said about orange blossoms.

Hindsight Bias: Life is lived forward but understood backwards.

Language can also be compared with a sheet of paper: thought is the front and the sound the back; one cannot cut the front without cutting the back; one cannot cut at the same time; likewise in language, one can neither divide sound from thought nor thought from sound; the division could be accomplished only abstractedly, and the result would be wither pure psychology or pure phonology.

Myth reflects on itself and criticises itself.

The center always seeks to fix, or freeze the play of binary opposition.

Kafka’s door produces the expectation of a fresh air and a light of illumination that never arrives.

The self only becomes a self on the condition that it has suffered a separation, a loss which is suspended and provisionally resolved through a melancholic incorporation of same ‘other’.

The wonders of an eight piece hair extension!

regaining faith

A diagram of the interactions of things you love/hate; feel comfortable with/are embarrassed or afraid of; what you think you should like and what you really like – the list can be expanded to suit individual sensibilities.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who gives me the least bit of attention

Hide me somewhere deeper under humiliation

A self sacrificial existence: I’m willing, or rather, I make it my priority to sacrifice my social existence to achieve the mission I was destined for.

School has a way of fluffing and decentering ambitions from desires. In moments like these, refer back to the moments of the origin, your home, when problems seemed real, humbling. Keep the promise to yourself. I stay neutral and persistent emotionally.

Thank you yesterday for I am a better person you happened.

Fellini and me.

A man from nowhere gliding only for the moment.

You know what you are? I know what you’re not.

I stick my finger in existence, it smells of nothing.

A person of morals and virtue.

Infected woman

The simple pleasures of eating a warm meal, sipping on cappuccino at a cafe early morning while looking out the window to the cold barren street.

I dreamed a dream in utter synchronicity to my waking reality.

Better not to make films at all than to make films with these people.

Exhibitionists

The road is little more than a conveyor belt that runs through a repetitive, vacuous, monotonous environment.

traditional and the transitional – inconsistencies and ambiguities.

You’re playing games with yourself, its time you stop.

Perfectionists perceive everything through parameters.

Good for you for knowing what you don’t want.

Things can get better.

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