I fucking love people who become more themselves with age. Stranger taste. Clearer boundaries. Louder laugh. Less interest in impressing random people. Watching somebody slowly stop auditioning for the world is fucking beautiful.
Dostoievski describió, sin saberlo, lo que muchos pasamos una vida entera buscando, cuando escribió: "Quiero hablar de todo con al menos una persona, como hablo conmigo mismo".
The absolute funniest part of capitalist ideology is that they somehow managed to convince everyone that "freedom" meant like...the freedom to choose between 63 kinds of shampoo, and not like...the freedom to quit a job you hate without losing your health insurance.
I’ve always considered myself a wise fool. I’m very aware, very observant, very intelligent and somehow still capable of doing the dumbest shit imaginable. Life is my art I guess.
some of the most important parts of being alive are deeply unproductive.. stuff like
wandering, pondering, noticing, loving, delighting, changing your mind, sitting with something you don’t understand, etc.
productivity is an instrumental good but meaning is a terminal one.
One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
If hope feels too heavy, borrow something smaller: curiosity. What might tomorrow reveal? Who might surprise you? Which version of yourself have you not met yet?
i think everyone secretly has a private little mythology about their own life where certain songs, streets, evenings and completely insignificant conversations have been promoted to something very large by them.
Leer un libro en público es solo performativo para las personas que no leen libros. Para un lector, cada sala de espera, banco de parque y vagón de tren es otro capítulo potencial.
I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to experience life with you. "taste this. look at that. listen to this song." over and over. until you can't imagine experiencing life without them.