The Anomaly

Nostalgia is a villain. It suggests that life makes sense.

There is something admirable that always surpasses knowledge, intelligence, and even genius, and that is incomprehension. —The anomaly, Victør Miesel

Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

We want answers for even our tiniest anxieties and a way of conceiving the world without reexamining our values, our emotions, and our actions. Take climate change. We never listen to the scientists.

No one takes their own life, didn’t they teach you that? There are just tortured souls who escape by killing their torturer.

No author writes the reader's book, no reader reads the author's book. At most, they have the final period in common -- Victor Miesel

Their message is obscure, but freedom of thought on the internet is all the more complete now that it’s clear that people have stopped thinking.

The lowest trash always have the option of taking refuge in patriotism.

The truth, with love, is that the heart knows straightaway, and shouts it from the rooftops. Of course, you’re not going to come straight out and tell the person you love them. They wouldn’t understand. So, to disguise the fact that you’re already hostage to them, you make conversation.

Since - at least - King Arthur and his knights, the military gent likes to gather in circles, probably because the circle proclaims the equality of merit without hiding anything from the real hierarchies.

Nobody lives long enough to know just how little interest anybody takes in anybody.

Pero amar es no poder evitar que el corazón pisotee a la inteligencia.

spending every day missing a woman who’s no longer there will be less painful than relentlessly desiring one who’s sleeping beside him but is light-years away from him in the tepid indifference of the shadows.

Of course, you’re not going to come straight out and tell the person you love them. They wouldn’t understand. So, to disguise the fact that you’re already hostage to them, you make conversation.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nietzsche said: ‘Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

I still don’t really like the word ‘destiny.’ It’s just a target that people draw after the fact, in the place where the arrow landed.

Maybe life begins the moment we know we don’t have one.

But love means not being able to stop your heart trampling all over your intelligence.

Religion is a carnivorous fish in the abyssal depths. It emits the feeblest of light and needs a vast darkness around it to attract its prey.

Qu’est-ce que ça changerait pour eux, après tout ? Simulés ou non, on vit, on sent, on aime, on souffre, on crée, et on mourra tous en laissant sa trace, minuscule, dans la simulation.

Le diable entre chez un avocat et lui dit : « Bonjour, je suis le diable. J’ai un marché à vous proposer. — Je vous écoute. — Je vais faire de vous l’avocat le plus riche du monde. En échange, vous me donnez votre âme, l’âme de vos parents, celle de vos enfants et celle de vos cinq meilleurs amis ? » L’avocat le regarde d’un air étonné et dit : « D’accord. Où est le piège ? »