May 2013
37 posts
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute...”
– Roald Dahl (via sweetcheeksaremadeofthese)
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires...”
– Anaïs Nin (via delicateswans)
“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage,...”
– Osho (via electrichoney)
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“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, translation by Justin O’Brien (via frenchtwist)
“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via delicateswans)
“To be or not to be; that’s not really a question.”
– Jean Luc Godard
“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The...”
– Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy: The Art of the Movie (via tubulartrevor)
“When I say “I fear” — don’t let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a journal entry dated 14 October 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art....”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Beauty Will Save the World (via delicateswans)
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“Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme...”
– Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology (via quotes-shape-us)
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“Is it nonsense, is it brilliance? Why am I so flown with words, & apparently...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry after finishing To The Lighthouse, dated 18 April 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via lillyfelizitas)
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Elliott Smith—Either/Or (New Moon, 2007)
It’s a...
“I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via delicateswans)
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“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in...”
– Socrates, the Phaedo (via deaths-and-entrances)
“Kant said that the history of philosophy was a battlefield. He was absolutely...”
– Alain Badiou, The Enigmatic Relationship between Philosophy and Politics (via deaths-and-entrances)
“And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness,...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via speakmnemosyne)
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
“I will be what I will be.”
– God - The Bible; Exodus 3:14
“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”
– Orson Scott Card, Sarah (via quotes-shape-us)
April 2013
59 posts
“I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one,
allowed me to...”
– “Dostoevsky,” Charles Bukowski (via anyliveman)
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“Character is destiny.”
– Heraclitus
“What I value the most is the perishable. I love the way it exhausts and refills...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a journal entry dated 10 January 1910 (via violentwavesofemotion)
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When I was in the third grade I thought that I was...
“It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random...”
– Albert Camus (via faulknerandfieldnotes)
“‘So, you also love life?’
‘Yes, I also love life, what of it?’
‘Yet you’ve...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons (via blacktout)
“Memory invents another present.
As it invents myself.
What has been lived...”
– Octavio Paz, from “Preparatory Exercise” in A Tree Within, trans. Eliot Weinberger (New Directions, 1988)
“The time of our day is too narrowly spanned,
we are, and look and are...”
– Friedrich Holderlin - Rosseau
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be...”
– Achilles (Troy)
“The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can’t...”
– Bram van Velde
“Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via thatkindofwoman)
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune,...”
– Albert Einstein (via petrichour) 