Human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love, that give meaning to the indifferent universe. An yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things like their family, their work and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

Prof. Louis Levi

photo by Dj Nightmare

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

WHO WILL DELIVER ME
FROM MYSELF?

Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - " Wow! What a Ride!

Hunter S. Thompson

Because i always feel like running
Not away
Because there's no such place
Because if there was i would have
found it by now
Because it's easier to run
Easier than staying and finding out
you're the only one
Who didn't run.

by Gil Scott Heron

CASUAL ART
Behind the Green Door @ Casa Bernardo

Texto escolhido por Joana Montez, retirado d'O Livro do Desassossego composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa.

Tenho mais pena dos que sonham o provável, o legítimo e o próximo, do que dos que devaneiam sobre o longíquo e o estranho. Os que sonham grandemente, ou são doidos e acreditam no que sonham e são felizes, ou são devaneadores simples, para quem o devaneio é uma música da alma, que os embala sem lhes dizer nada. Mas o que sonha o possível tem a possibilidade real da verdadeira desilusão.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Like most of the others I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.

At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going.

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

Sob estas capas de vulgaridade há talvez sonho e
dor que a ninharia e o hábito não deixam vir à
superfície. Afigura-se-me que estes seres estão
encerrados num invólucro de pedra: talvez queiram
falar, talvez não possam falar.

in Húmus by Raul Brandão

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Charles Baudelaire

Im the trouble starter, fuckin instigator.
Im the fear addicted, danger illustrated.

Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter.
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter.

Im the bitch you hated, filth infatuated.
Yeah. Im the pain you tasted, fell intoxicated.

Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter.
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter.

Im the self inflicted, mind detonator.
Yeah. Im the one infected, twisted animator.

Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter.
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter... starter... starter...
Starter...

Firestarter by The Prodigy

Ditosos os fazedores de sistemas pessimistas! Não só se amparam de ter feito qualquer coisa, como também se alegram do explicado, e se incluem na dor universal.

Fernando Pessoa in Livro do Desassossego, (composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa).

Evil needs to be pondered just as much as good, for good and evil are ultimately nothing but ideal extensions and abstractions of doing, and both belong to the chiaroscuro of life.

C. G. Jung in Psychology & Alchemy

You will find me if you want me in the garden
unless it's pouring down with rain
You will find me waiting through spring and summer
You will find me waiting for the fall
You will find me waiting for the apples to riped
You will find me waiting for them to fall
You will find me by the banks of all four rivers
You will find me at the spring of consciouness
You will find me if you want me in the garden
unless it's pouring down with rain


lyrics by Blixa Bargeld from The Garden by Einstürzende Neubauten 1996

drawing by Raymond Pettibon

Untitled (Whether you want)

1986

Ink on paper

38.5 x 28 cm

The dance floor felt so velvet good that night
Eight miles high over the Sunset Strip what a trippy sight

Raymond Pettibon in Ciro's Hero, 1990

Conquistei, palmo a pequeno palmo, o terreno interior que nascera meu. Reclamei, espaço a pequeno espaço, o pântano em que me quedara nulo. Pari meu ser infinito, mas tirei-me a ferros de mim mesmo.

Fernando Pessoa in Livro do Desassossego, ( composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa )

... the symptom does not call for interpretation: in itself it is not a call to the Other but a pure jouissance addressed to no one.

Jacques Lacan

In art only the bizarre is beautiful.

Baudelaire