November 2012
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“To get lost is to learn the way.”
– African proverb
September 2012
3 posts
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“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...”
– D.H. Lawrence (via mycolorbook)
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“September 22. Nothing.”
– Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923 (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
August 2012
2 posts
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July 2012
5 posts
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“I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.”
– Daul Kim (via lavandula)
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“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot…for he sees...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via mythologyofblue)
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“Everything is constantly in the process of being lost.”
– Javier Marías (via heartshapedhickey)
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“Who will wake up at the end of my dream?”
– Jacques Roubaud (via frenchtwist)
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“Destruction can be beautiful to some people. Don’t ask me why. It just is. And...”
– John Knowles (via sequences)
June 2012
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“I’m beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I’ve tried to put it...”
– Vladimir, Waiting for Godot
May 2012
46 posts
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“Legend says, when you can’t sleep at night, it’s because you’re awake in someone...”
– (via weeatquotes)
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“Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know...”
– Oscar Wilde (via philphys)
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“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing...”
– Robert Heinlein (via blondebmwlover)
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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I...”
– Robert Heinlein (via semperaugustus)
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“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via m-illennium)
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“You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again,...”
– T. S. Eliot “East Coker,” from *The Four Quartets* (via loverofbeauty)
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“Every word is changed when spoken.”
– Stanley Moss, Poetry International Festival 1995, via Twitter (via growing-orbits)
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“Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction...”
– Michel Houellebecq (H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life)
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus, The Adulterous Woman (via pnguye)
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“- Pourquoi tu pleures?
- Ça peut arriver comme ça, pour rien.
- Je voudrais...”
– Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile (via almostaslug)
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“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing...”
– Robert Heinlein (via blondebmwlover)
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“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are...”
– Robert Heinlein’s Lazarus Long
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“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine...”
– Robert Heinlein
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via loveage-moondream)
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“Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my...”
– Anonymous (via cavesoflilith)
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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers...”
– Woody Allen
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“Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via minuteandfaraway)
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Bubervia thesobsister * liquidnight (via frenchtwist)
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“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via hockey-teeth)
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“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds.”
– Ben, Death of a Salesman (via petrichoriam)
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via lunairens)
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“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via leonardo-da-vinci)
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“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
– André Gide, Prometheus Illbound [via aperfectcommotion] (via skibinskipedia)
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought....”
– Joseph Campbell (via dustoncrowns)
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“Der Tod:
Gib deine Hand, du schön und zart Gebild!
Bin Freund und komme nicht...”
– Matthias Claudius (via bbcspiritofschubert)
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“There is a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen (via oktoberlyons)
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“White people don’t get to decide if something is racist. On a much smaller...”
– Anesti Vega (via tahlalaliaaa)
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“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”
– Victor Hugo (via daiseas)
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“If you cannot find a friend who is good, wise, and loving, walk alone, like a...”
– Buddha (via thepajamawarrior)
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“It feels so… good, Brigitte. It’s like touching yourself. You know every move…...”
– Ginger, Ginger Snaps
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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell (via surrogateself)
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“Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?”
– Albert Camus (via myunreliablejournal)
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“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by...”
– Leo Aikman (via myquotelibrary)
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“Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are...”
– J.G. Ballard - Ambit magazine, 1967 via foxesinbreeches (via frenchtwist)
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“I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had...”
– Harriet Tubman; author, abolitionist, and engineer on the Underground Railroad- was the first black woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp and the first to appear in the Black Heritage Series on this date in 1978 (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity) 