February 2012
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“It’s not you I’ve lost,
but the world.”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, from “A Kind of Loss” (translated from the German by Mark Anderson)
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.
If you want...”
– Lao Tzu (via trusimplicity)
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“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and...”
– Sartre (via trusimplicity)
January 2012
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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson (via misswallflower)
“In love, one and one are one.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via trusimplicity)
“To gaze into another person’s face is to do two things: to recognize their...”
– Lawrence Hill (via paperlover)
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“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of...”
– William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (via mirroir)
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nerdquirks:
sabaism: (noun) the worship of stars
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Time Travel
thedustdancestoo:
I found you
again today,
faded and dusty
inside a rusty box
on the top shelf
of a dark closet,
inside my head.
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“The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that...”
– Glenda Jackson (via mirroir)
Your first time out of the country of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map. You always hated that I’d been lucky enough to pick my way through streets I couldn’t pronounce to find cathedrals, graveyards. If you were a city, you said, I’d only like to know your suburbs. If you were a city, I said, I’d like to know your poor neighborhoods, your inner parts. Read your graffiti. Drink your tap water....
laundromat1967:
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of it. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and...
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“My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian (via mirroir)
“All of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
– Blaise Pascal (via theyoungradical)
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via solipsism2)
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“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our...”
– Jamie Paolinett (via myquotelibrary)
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People with mental illnesses still live 15-20... →
“If such a disparity in mortality rates affected a less stigmatised section of the population, then we would witness an outcry. The fact that life expectancy remains about 20 years less for men with mental illness and 15-years less for women with mental illness, denotes a cynical disregard for these lost lives and shows, in stark terms, by just how much people with mental illness are valued less...
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
– Michelle Williams (via forgot-forgotten)
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“The flowers withered
Their color faded away
...”
– Ono no Komachi (via mirroir)
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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
– John Keats (via mirroir)
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“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It’s not the best way to live. But...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via mirroir)
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“I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know...”
– Charles de Lint (via mirroir)
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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via mirroir)
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“There is no right path - just the unfolding of life through your infinite,...”
– Almine (via mirroir)
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“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we...”
– Richard Bach (The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story)
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nerdquirks:
aureate: (adjective)
1. pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets
2. of a golden color or brilliance
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get...”
– C. S. Lewis
(via thelittlephilosopher)
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