August 2011
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When I sing...
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at home:
when my favorite song play on the radio:
in the shower:
in the computer:
if someone asks me to sing:
If I want someone, they don't want me. If someone...
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Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it?
If so, come;...
– Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali
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I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they’re my own...
– Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (via blogut)
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I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could...
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Sometimes, I even try to imagine what it would be like to see him again. Which...
– Alexandra Potter, You’re The One That I Don’t Want (via simply-quotes)
But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar...
– Mitch Albom (via kittekati)
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o’er and o’er again...
– Thomas Moore (via brokenmachine)
Boo, Forever
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spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, i’m haunted by all the space that i will live without you.
by Richard Brautigan
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
– Gustave Flaubert, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
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: Aristotle →
by Billy Collins
This is the beginning.
Almost anything can happen.
This is where you find
the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land,
the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page.
Think of an egg, the letter A,
a woman ironing on a bare stage
as the heavy curtain rises.
This is the very beginning.
The first-person narrator introduces hirnself,
tells us about his...
15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent →
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1. Zhaghzhagh (Persian) The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. 2. Yuputka (Ulwa) A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin. 3. Slampadato (Italian) Addicted to the infra-red glow of tanning salons? This word describes you. 4. Luftmensch (Yiddish) The Yiddish have scores of words to...
Do you know what happens, Princess, when a dream comes true and you feel your joy bubbling over into wide grins, happy dances, and shrieks of “Holy @#$%!!” and the like?
Your energy actually spills over into the oceans of time and reaches into the past where it laps upon the shores of a former here and now, infusing a former unsuspecting self (who is still merrily living their life due to...
At the end of the day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain...
– from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
– C.S. Lewis (via girlwithoutwings)
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Somewhere unwritten poems wait, like lonely lakes not seen by anyone.
– Anna Kamieńska in her notebook (1968), from Astonishments (translated by Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon)
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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
– Leo Buscaglia (via kari-shma)