February 2012
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“This sentence is made of lead (and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely...”
– Tom Robbins (via the-rx)
January 2012
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December 2011
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“The concept of liberty or humour or irony or happiness or love doesn’t exist....”
– North Korea: no liberty, humour, irony … no love. Christopher Hitchens, 2009 (via mabelmoments)
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“Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying. Make a list of how many...”
– Yoko Ono (via involutus)
November 2011
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via nuaira)
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“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting....”
– Andy Warhol (via 2straws)
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Never give all the Heart W.B. Yeats
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. ...
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East Coker (no 2 of Four Quartets)
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,
And dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach de Gotha
And...
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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That’s all we shall...”
– W.B. Yeats (via chughtai)
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October 2011
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“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we...”
– T.H. White (via nuaira)
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“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not...”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605-15
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may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more...
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman (via fayestreal)
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“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via talkativolive)
“Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too.”
– Tennessee Williams (via laceofpearls)
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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (via misshannahvictoria)
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“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
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“Every day, neuroscientists are revealing who you are and how you function. They...”
– Johann Hari (via baronjamie)(via isay)
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“Scars remind us that the past was real.”
– Shakespeare (via avgoustos)
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“I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
(via pulmonaire)
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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (via decrepito)
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via nuaira)
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“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via languagemagic)
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“I’m not sentimental―I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via nakedslate)
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Words are Deeds: What is a Poet? →
He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and…
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“…the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human...”
– William Faulkner (via thesilencieux)
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“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you.”
– “The Letter” by Amy Lowell (via aequinoctium) 