February 2011
63 posts
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to by eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
—Candide by Voltaire
Got my Chinese New Year money today.
Still feeling horrible :|
“Ask any soldier what hand-to-hand combat means and imagine Stalingrad; eighty days and nights of hand-to-hand fighting. The streets are no longer measured in meters, but in corpses. Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; It is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames.”
—A German officer on the Battle of Stalingrad (via demons)
January 2011
69 posts
Fernando who?
I’ve spent the past 2 days being too emotional about this whole saga already.
I’m still angry and devastated. Still don’t understand why he would want to leave.
At least I’m glad we’re not forcing him to stay when he doesn’t want to.
