“Haven’t you felt it? The loss of autonomy. The sense of being virtualized. The devices you use, the ones you carry everywhere, room to room, minute to minute, inescapably. Do you ever feel unfleshed? All the coded impulses you depend on to guide you. All the sensors in the room are watching you, listening to you, tracking your habits, measuring your capabilities. All the linked data designed to incorporate you into the megadata. Is there something that makes you uneasy? Do you think about the technovirus, all systems down, global implosion? Or is it more personal? Do you feel steeped in some horrific digital panic that’s everywhere and nowhere?”— Don DeLillo, Zero K (via quotespile)
“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”— Mark Oliver Everett
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“As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”— Chinua Achebe
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“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”— Andy Warhol (via quotemadness)
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Removing headphones as a sign of respect is modern equivalent of people removing their hats
