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*first and foremost, bonus points go to anyone who actually reads the whole quote!!!*

Aldous Huxley... the godfather of "Emo"?

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-trancendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights fancies - all these private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."

I have been unable to see the world and its many interactions the same since first reading this, years ago. Re-reading it has only made it that much more true to me now.

Note to literate people: read Huxley's "The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell". Right now. GO!


Note to other people: I just went on a wicked little film nerd rant about Requiem for a Dream in the Film Group... so check it here yo