I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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The trouble with being born
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tomrum
04 Jan, 20:38
“The state of being alone was my religion. You have become the center of my life, the goddess of one who does not believe in anything, the greatest happiness and unhappiness ever encountered.”
Emil Cioran in a letter to Friedgard Thoma.
Emil Cioran in a letter to Friedgard Thoma.
tomrum
02 Jan, 19:19
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
tomrum
20 Dec, 18:05
The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.
tomrum
16 Dec, 17:24
We must display our unhappiness and from time to time be heard to sigh, be seen to be impatient: for if we let others see how happy and secure in ourselves we are in spite of suffering and deprivation, how malicious and envious we would make them! — We have to take care not to corrupt our fellow men; moreover, they would in the instance referred to impose upon us a heavy impost, and our public suffering is in any event also our private advantage.
tomrum
03 Nov, 20:11
We have to entertain the possibility that there is no reason for something existing; or that the split between subject and object is only our name for something equally accidental we call knowledge; or, an even more difficult thought, that while there may be some order to the self and the cosmos, to the microcosm and macrocosm, it is an order that is absolutely indifferent to our existence, and of which we can have only a negative awareness.
tomrum
30 Oct, 17:30
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.
As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.
As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.
tomrum
08 Sep, 14:01
In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.
tomrum
29 Jun, 20:09
I know only one thing. When I sleep, I know no fear, no, trouble, no bliss. Blessing on him who invented sleep. The common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. There is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.
tomrum
06 Jun, 13:40
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
tomrum
15 May, 15:00
The pain was the world. The mind could not find a place outside it. He could hear the pain, staticky, in his hand and wrist. He closed his eyes again, briefly. He could feel himself contained in the dark but also just beyond it, on the lighted outer surface, the other side, belonged to both, feeling both, being himself and seeing himself.
tomrum
17 Apr, 18:48
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we’re all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
tomrum
12 Mar, 15:30
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
tomrum
29 Feb, 20:52
Betrayal. We betray to be loyal. Betrayal is like imagining when the reality isn’t good enough... betrayal as hope and compensation. As the making of a better life. Betrayal as love. As a tribute to our unlived lives... betrayal as escape. As a constructive act. As a statement of ideals. Worship. As an adventure of the soul. Betrayal as travel. How can we discover new places if we never leave home? You were my Promised Land, Poppy. You gave my lies a reason.
tomrum
25 Feb, 08:06
And yet the slightest attempt to convert any meaningful idea (*of one’s own*—this is the main thing) into words leads inevitably to the thesis: for pure thought, all human languages are foreigners.
tomrum
22 Jan, 17:30
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening.
tomrum
14 Jan, 20:37
I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.
tomrum
27 Dec, 21:48
I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
The death of life
before life
dies.
I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
the death of life
before life
dies.
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
The death of life
before life
dies.
I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
the death of life
before life
dies.
tomrum
27 Nov, 17:00
My heartbeat has reached the epitome of rottenness; It is no longer part of my heart. Time for the shadows to come and grab me by the brain. Dearest, I am asking you again: Just how far is the sky?
tomrum
25 Nov, 04:51
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.
tomrum
06 Oct, 19:34
I feel like the so called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it’s the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark. How we balance it is what makes something interesting…My character in “La Haine,” he’s not bad, he’s unhappy and usually people are like that. Most of us are angry. Maybe one day I’ll play Buddha.
tomrum
24 Aug, 19:19
But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.
tomrum
31 Jul, 10:01
Tomrum's journey ends here
I hope you have appreciated what has been posted here throughout years.
Tomrum will remain a sensation, a feeling, no longer a telegram channel.
Thank you all, may the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
feel free to leave.
I hope you have appreciated what has been posted here throughout years.
Tomrum will remain a sensation, a feeling, no longer a telegram channel.
Thank you all, may the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
feel free to leave.
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