August 2012
104 posts
2 tags
“Passion is confused by silence.”
– Noelle Kocot, from “On My Third Anniversary in New Jersey” (via proustitute)
“If you’ve other
things to tell me, I’m telling you: don’t bother.
If you’ve...”
– Maureen Thorson, from Applies to Oranges (via leopoldgursky)
July 2012
105 posts
2 tags
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All (via honeyforthehomeless)
2 tags
6 tags
“Et il raconta sa vie de chaque jour, poétiquement, de façon à faire vibrer dans...”
– Maupassant, Boule de suif et autres contes, “Une Partie de campagne”
“Then you don’t care anymore?”
“I care so much I’m sick.”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via e-phem-er-al)
“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it’s the good kind of...”
– Lauren Oliver (via pavorst)
2 tags
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at...”
– Helen Keller (via kari-shma)
2 tags
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his...”
– Pablo Neruda (via e-phem-er-al)
“Fact is, silence is the perfect water:
unlike rain it falls from no clouds
to...”
– Philip Levine, from “He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do” (via e-phem-er-al)
1 tag
2 tags
“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
– Anne Sexton (via farewell-kingdom)
6 tags
“Qui apprendrait les hommes à mourir, leur apprendrait à vivre.”
– Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais (I.20 : “Que philosopher c’est apprendre à mourir”)
4 tags
“Let me tell you, reader, what I consider you to be.”
– Gerald Murnane, Inland (via proustitute)
3 tags
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
– Evelyn Waugh
2 tags
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...”
– Sigmund Freud (via psych-facts)
7 tags
Kim Kierkegaardashian's Twitter. →
“I have majorly fallen off my workout-eating plan! AND it’s summer! But to despair over sin is to sink deeper into it.” excellent. And we can all thank The New Yorker for sharing this Twitter ! :)
2 tags
“I would have rather felt you round my throat,
Crushing out life, than waving me...”
– Laurence Hope, “Kashmiri Song” (via proustitute)
6 tags
“But let us […] prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers ;...”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV : Adam speaking to Eve
4 tags
“Small as a peanut
Big as a giant,
We’re all the same size
When we turn off...”
– “No difference” by Shel Silverstein
