June 2011
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I’ll punch you in the face with a knife.
– Tristan
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via gloryszabo)
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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'Eunoia'
inothernews:
Eunoia is the shortest word in English to contain all five vowels, and the word quite literally means ‘beautiful thinking.’
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...
– Robert Heinlein (via refreshinglyconfident) (via caterpillarcowboy)
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Sharing Poetry: Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese" →
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies...
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
– Johann von Goethe
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And my head told my heart "Let love grow". But my...
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- Mumford & Sons -
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Tell me your favourites!
Your favourite song, book, animal, quote, person, &c.
To kick things off, I’ll tell you about mine:
colour: white, animal: wolf, author: C.S. Lewis, book: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, song: Howl by Florence & the Machine, film: Stardust, emotion: Sehnsucht, constellation: the crux,
letter: y, flower: icelandic poppy …& so on.
I want to get to know you all better, and also to make...
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you...
– Tennessee Williams (via princess-steppenwolf)
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...
– Katherine Mansfield (via absentia)
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The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote.
– Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
Every book, is an image of solitude. […] A man sits alone in a room and writes....
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I think that sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it...
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So little of what could happen does happen.
– Salvador Dalí (via laceofpearls)
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
– Erica Jong (via julie911)
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at...
– Sylvia Plath (via suzywire) (via atoms) (via merricat) (via fuckyeahthebeatgeneration) (via lajoiedevivre) (via softwhisper)
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sometimes you need to step outside, get some air,...
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as...
– Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (via ahuntersheart)
I believe in dragons, good men, and other fantasy creatures.