October 2011
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“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Wiesel (via thenewwomensmovement)
traciecleanyourroom:
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
– Sylvia Plath, The...
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“TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be...”
– The road not taken, Robert Frost. 1920. (via nidaros-domen)
September 2011
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“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of...”
– John Ashbery (via theparisreview)
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“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words…”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via stanielsbookclub)
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“These people who are making a big deal about gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck...”
– Clint Eastwood (via gooso)
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“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...”
– Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors)
via ginger-ninja (via frenchtwist)
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“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays...”
– Heraclitus (via ratak-monodosico)
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“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting...”
– Rumi (via greatersun)
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messagesfromabluebottle:
“Poetry, in fact, is two quite distinct things. It may be either or both. One is a series of words that are intrinsically musical, in clang-tint and rhythm, as the single word cellar-door is musical. The other is a series of ideas, false in themselves, that offer a means of emotional and imaginative escape from the harsh realities of everyday.”
- H. L. Mencken (1920)...
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collettecollette:
“He watched her sleep and as he did he traced with his eyes the curving valley of her back and hips rising like hills under the white snow of the sheets. He saw the slight lilac shadow underneath her eyelids that were like the petals of a tightly closed flower. Her wrists were thin and her hands were like sleeping doves folded white and small on the pillow, fingers like...
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libertarians:
republicans deny facts about society
democrats deny facts about the economy
republicans and democrats deny facts about foreign policy
the people sit here confused
why are these clowns ruling us?
don’t re-elect anyone. ever.
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fuckyeahexistentialism:
Existential Vacuum — The psychological condition in which a person doubts that life has any meaning. This new neurosis is characterized by loss of interest and lack of initiative. According to Viktor Frankl, the existential vacuum is apparently a concomitant of industrialization. When neither instinct nor social tradition direct man toward what he ought to do, soon he...
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“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I...”
– (via peaceofshell)
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“Two parallels
always meet
when we draw them ourselves.
The question is...”
– Miroslav Holub (via misterchu)
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“I have discovered that life doesn’t actually knock you down. It does, however,...”
– I. Vanzant (via lucifelle)
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