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Thom Monn
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
― Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now (1956)
Es ist Unsinn sagt die Vernunft Es ist was es ist sagt die Liebe
Es ist Unglück sagt die Berechnung Es ist nichts als Schmerz sagt die Angst Es ist aussichtslos sagt die Einsicht Es ist was es ist sagt die Liebe
Es ist lächerlich sagt der Stolz Es ist leichtsinning sagt die Vorsicht Es ist unmöglich sagt die Erfahrung Es ist was es ist sagt die Liebe
Erich Fried (1983)
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word ‘no.’ To ‘no’ there is only one answer and that is ‘yes.’ Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. (Victor Hugo in Les Misérables)
The Svenska Series Mixtape Vol.6
Tracklist: Loscil - Endless Falls Brambles - Reflected Consciousness Apparat - Lighton Timo Maas, Brian Molko - College 84 (Patrick Chardronnets Ambient Mix) Trentemøller - Neverglade Dustin O'Halloran - Fragile N.2 Loscil - The Making Of Grief Point Recondite - Floe Laurent Garnier - The Cloud Making Machine Part 2 Kyson - Sorry For All Those Tough Times Mike Sheridan - Tidligt Afsted Trifonic - Calling Apparat - 44 Superpitcher - Moon Fever Remixe (Lawrence Ambient Mix) Biosphere & H.I.A. - The Rotunda Talvihorros - Dyspnea Mike Sheridan - Morgentimer Apparat - Escape
Being but men, we walked into the trees Afraid, letting our syllables be soft For fear of waking the rooks, For fear of coming Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries.
If we were children we might climb, Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig, And, after the soft ascent, Thrust out our heads above the branches To wonder at the unfailing stars.
Out of confusion, as the way is, And the wonder, that man knows, Out of the chaos would come bliss.
That, then, is loveliness, we said, Children in wonder watching the stars, Is the aim and the end.
Being but men, we walked into the trees.
// Dylan Thomas //