Sometimes A Fantasy

'Every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies dissolve when we wake, banished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we're sure if we try hard enough... we can live the dream.

The fantasy is simple.
Pleasure is good, and twice as much pleasure is better.
Pain is bad, and no pain is better.
But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something. And there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache.
And maybe that's okay.
Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live IN OUR DREAMS.'

(GA, s03, ep03)

Today's Revelation

‘The real truth is that I probably don’t want to be too happy. Or content. Because… then what? I actually like the quest… the search. That’s the fun. The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to. What do you know? I'm having a great time and I DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!’

(AM, s01, ep01)

Wait and Hope

'There is neither HAPPINESS nor MISERY in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.'

(Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo)

Best of Wishes!

Best of wishes to those two who join their destinies today!
Just hope one day I'll be this lucky!
Yeah, love is in the air!

Now... let's party! :)

Something Beautiful

'I can't manufacture a miracle
The silence was pitiful that day.
A love is getting too cynical
Passion's just physical these days...
I analyze everyone I meet
But get no sign, love ain't kind
Every night I admit defeat
And cry myself blind.

If I can't wake up in the morning
Cause my bed lies vacant at night
If I'm lost, hurt, tired or lonely
Can't control it, try as I might!
May I find that love that won't leave me
May I find it by the end of the day
I won't be lost, hurt, tired and lonely
Something beautiful will come my way!'

Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

'Lying is bad.
Or so we are told constantly from birth -
Honesty is the best policy,
The truth shall set you free,
I chopped down the cherry tree,
whatever.
The fact is: lying is a necessity.
We lie to ourselves because the truth... The truth fucking hurts.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it or deny it, eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not.
But here's the truth about THE TRUTH: It hurts.
So we lie.'

(GA, s02, ep14)

On Love

"Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species."

(Alain de Botton, On Love)


The Cardigans - Lovefool

Lipschitz!

'I loved Alvin Lipschitz
more than I can possibly say.
He was a real artistic guy...
Sensitive... a painter.
But he was always trying
To find himself.
He'd go out every night
Looking for himself
And on the way
He found Ruth,
Gladys,
Rosemary and Irving.
I guess you can say we broke up
Because of artistic differences.
He saw himself as alive
AND I SAW HIM DEAD.'

(Cell Block Tango, part 06)

Cicero!

'My sister, Veronica, and I
had this double act
and my husband, Charlie,
traveled around with us.
Now, for the last number in our act
We did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five...
Splits, spread eagles,
Back flips, flip flops,
One right after the other.
Well, this one night we were down at the hotel Cicero,
The three of us,
Boozin' and
Havin' a few laughs
When we run out of ice.
So I went out to get some.
I come back, open the door
and there's Veronica and
Charlie doing Number Seventeen-
The spread eagle.

Well, I was in such a state of shock,
I completely blacked out.
I can't remember a thing.
It wasn't until later,
When I was washing the blood off my hands
I EVEN KNEW THEY WERE DEAD.'

(Cell Block Tango, part 05)

Uh! Uh!

'"What am I doing here?
They say my famous tenant
held down my husband
and I chopped his head off.
But it's not true.
I am innocent.
I don't know why Uncle Sam says I did it.
I tried to explain at the police station
but they didn't understand."
"Yeah, but did you do it?!"
"Uh! Uh! NOT GUILTY!"'

(Cell Block Tango, part 04)