A thin grey line between black and white

The neon's and the cigarettes
Rented rooms and rented cars
The crowded streets, the empty bars
Chimney tops and trumpets
The golden lights, the loving prayers
The coloured shoes, the empty trains
I'm tired of crying on the stairs
The downtown lights
Yeah, yeah

Neuzticies nevienam, kam vairāk par trīsdesmit.

Gadījums, kurā Kants nav galants
"Skolotām sievietēm," atzīmē Kants, "viņu grāmatas ir vajadzīgas tādā pašā mērā kā pulkstenis; viņas to nēsā līdzi, lai citi redzētu, ka viņām tāds vispār ir, kaut arī parasti tas nekustas vispār vai arī nav uzstādīts pēc saules."

"The most relevant example for enjoyment without the craving to have what one enjoys may be found in interpersonal relations. A man and a woman may enjoy each other on many grounds; each may like the other's attitudes, tastes, ideas, temperament, or whole personality. Yet only in those who must have what they like will this mutual enjoyment habitually result in the desire for sexual possession. For those in a dominant mode of being, the other person is enjoyable, and even erotically attractive, but she or he does not have to be "plucked," to speak in terms of Tennyson's poem,in order to be enjoyed.
Having-centered persons want to have the person they like or admire. This can be seen in relations between parents and their children, between teachers and students, and between friends. Neither partner is satisfied simply to enjoy the other person; each wishes to have the other person for him- or herself. Hence, each is jealous of those who also want to "have" the other. Each partner seeks the other like a ship-wrecked sailor seeks a plank—for survival. Predominantly "having" relationships are heavy, burdened, filled with conflicts and jealousies.
Speaking more generally, the fundamental elements in the relation between individuals in the having mode of existence are competition,antagonism, and fear. The antagonistic element in the having relationship stems from its nature. If having is the basis of my sense of identity because "I am what I have," the wish to have must lead to the desire to have much,to have more, to have most. In other words, greed is the natural outcome of the having orientation. It can be the greed of the miser or the greed of the profit hunter or the greed of the womanizer or the man chaser."

Erich Fromm "To Have or to Be?"

"Man tā ir aktuāla tēma, kā nošķirt stāvokļus - nogurums, slinkums, nav iedvesmas."
Andrejs Eglītis

“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then there was a short period when you weren't with anybody, then another woman arrived, and you ate with her and fucked her, and it all seemed so normal, as if you had been waiting just for her and she had been waiting for you. I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.” 
― Charles Bukowski, Women

«Daudzi šizoīdi ir līdzīgi romiešu mājām bez izgreznojumiem, villām, kuru slēģi aizvērti spilgtās saules dēļ, taču iekšā, krēslā, notiek dzīres.»

Never step into a sterile Building
where the walls are flat and the
Windows are all the same
Such house will bring big harm to you
If you are visiting someone in such
a house: boycott it
If you are not allowed to transform it:
stay outside and ask the person
you want to visit to come out
Because it is a prisoner's house

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, 1968, Vienna

"Tēlu bāze, uz kuras pamata veidojas valoda, mūsu tautai ir sevišķi bagātīga. Pie mums mājas nojumi dēvē par jumta spārnu, saldo ēdienu par debesu speķi vai mūķenes nopūtām, kupolu - par pusapelsīnu, un tā bez gala. Skaisti un trāpīgi tēli. Andalūzijā valodas tēlainība vienkāršo ļaužu vidū sasniedz tipiski gongorisku smalkumu un izjūtu."
F. Garsija Lorka - Dona Luisa de Gongoras poētisko tēlu pasaule.

"Vēl nekad pasaules vēsturē sievietes nav uzvarējušas nevienu cīņu bez ieinteresētu vīriešu palídzības". Margareta Ātvuda