February 2012
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“lover I smashed my glass slipper to build a stained glass window for every wall...”
– Andrea Gibson, from Maybe I Need You
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“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak”
– Anthea Gibson, from Maybe I Need You
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via oblivio)
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“Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no...”
– Alan Watts (via black-wolves)
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something...”
– J.K. Rowling (via darkcanuck)
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“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and...”
– C.S. Lewis (via darkcanuck)
January 2012
“I will not weep
about your going until you pull out
of the drive. I will not...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
“You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel...”
– Haruki Murakami (via troubled)
“What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop...”
– Anne Carson, “Kinds of Water” in Plainwater (adapted from everythingwillburn)
“You sent for me to talk to you of art; and I have obeyed you in coming. But the...”
– John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (via proustitute)
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“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others...”
– Oscar Wilde (via nagging)
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“You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life— a simulated...”
– Thomas Bernhard
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do...”
– Franz Kafka (via dezasete)
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I wish I knew the language of hands. There are hundreds of words in the turn of a wrist, thousands in the trembling of fingertips. But there are dozens of interpretations for the clutching of a fist, the stretching of a finger - there are too many exceptions and not enough rules. Syntax and grammar do not exist in the curl of fingers to palm, only a wilder language of thought and feel; there are...
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“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now...”
– Thomas Bernhard
