May 2012
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He...”
– Roald Dahl (via saisonlune)
May 29th
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“I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I...”
– Henry Rollins (via lueurs)
May 29th
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May 29th
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“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Bieda (via theseasonofthewitch)
May 29th
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“you’ll be working in groups”
– satan (via galehus)
May 29th
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Anna Akhmatova, "One Takes the Straight Line"
airwalker: One takes the straight line, another goes in a circle and longs for the return to the parents’ house and longs for a former girlfriend. But I go, not in a straight line or in a zigzag, into nowhere and never, and disasters follow me like trains crashing off the tracks. (via rememo)
May 28th
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May 26th
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“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via emotional-algebra)
May 26th
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“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...”
– Mary Oliver  (via carouselwitch)
May 26th
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“I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
May 26th
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“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (via snapsforsantoro)
May 26th
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“You have to ask yourself, ‘Does this item or thought or response move me closer...”
– Peter Walsh (via shikoomkoom)
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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clairesawyer: If I was a celebrity I would go knocking on doors and be like hello yes it’s me
May 26th
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May 26th
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period-blood: sometimes i look at random people on the train or walking down the street and wonder about their day or what they had for breakfast or where they grew up and if they’re having a good or a bad day and i wonder if people do the same to me
May 23rd
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“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84  (via pearljude)
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.”
– Valerie Anne Poxleitner (via iamtea-rriffic) (via quote-book) (via rememo, tearriffic-deactivated20111218-) (via nobodyshippie)
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“What am I like? There’s something broken in me, there’s something broken in my...”
– Lara, in “Dr. Zhivago” - Pasternak (via summerpreambles)
May 22nd
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“I have always been a wretched speaker. My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and...”
– : Vladimir Nabokov (via scout)
May 22nd
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“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper (via les-jours-pluvieux)
May 22nd
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May 20th
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“I mean I can’t be the saint people dream of now. People want a street angel....”
– from the play cowboy mouth by Patti Smith and Sam Shepard, 1971 (via redvelvetteacake)
May 20th
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May 20th
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“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I...”
– Haruki Murakami (via ontelbaar)
May 20th
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“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via larmoyante)
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“We suspect that even when Libertines fall off a bar-stool and smash all their...”
– NME track review for Time For Heroes (via ivegotcigarettesandtimetokill)
May 19th
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May 19th
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“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet (via saisonlune)
May 19th
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le printemps: Louise Glück, A Myth of Devotion →
mitochondria: When Hades decided he loved this girl he built for her a duplicate of earth, everything the same, down to the meadow, but with a bed added. Everything the same, including sunlight, because it would be hard on a young girl to go so quickly from bright light to utter darkness Gradually, he thought, he’d introduce the night,
May 19th
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“Ik drink op mijn verwoeste huis, Op mijn leven vol van kwaad, Op onze gedeelde...”
– De laatste toost, Anna Akhmatova (via rememo)
May 19th
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“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via growing-orbits)
May 19th
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May 19th
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“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...”
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via unejeunedemoiselle)
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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“there still might be a place for us somewhere.”
– Charles Bukowski (via girlinlondon)
May 18th
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“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie,...”
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik sweetheart)
May 18th
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“The train ride to Paris was uneventful. I realized at one point I was crying....”
– Just Kids, Patti Smith (via clavicola)
May 18th
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May 17th
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own...”
– Franz Kafka
May 17th
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