December 2010
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grace-and-senses asked: Happy new year!
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“If the sight of the blue skies
fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass...”
– Eleonora Duse (via agoodthinghappened)
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“We are so divorced from it [life] that we feel at once a sort of loathing for...”
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via nymphora)
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“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being (via awritersruminations)
: Between going and staying →
melancholynotes:
by Octavio Paz
Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks.
All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.
Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their…
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“My memories have turned into anxieties.”
– Fernando Pessoa (via lungsattachedbywires)
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“They thought death was worth it, but I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she...”
– Stings, Sylvia Plath (via aplathaday)
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“Finding myself, I found company.”
– Cesare Pavese (via wearebasiclight)
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“The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...”
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
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“For [the introvert] self-communings are a pleasure. His own world is a safe...”
– Carl Jung, Psychological Typology (via justinfinity)
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A Writer's Ruminations: One Need Not Be a Chamber... →
awritersruminations:
One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host. Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one’s own…
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“What I was going to say though was that I’ve never, ever seen a scene in a film,...”
– Jesse Eisenberg on Mark and Eduardo’s ‘break up scene’, The Social Network (x)
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“Hold onto your voice. Hold onto your breath. Don’t make a noise,
don’t leave...”
– You Are Jeff (21) - Richard Siken (via transiency) (via rememo)
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“The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants...”
– The Problem by Richard Siken (via lived)
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Moments of Clarity
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“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I...
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““‘What are you whispering today?’ I asked.
He stopped, thought a little, and...”
– Family Happiness by Lev Tolstoy (via pinpricks)
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“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “let’s play.”
– Tender Is the Night, F.S.F. (via aclockwithouthands)
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“You wish to see the distant realms? Very well. But know this first, the places...”
– Neil Gaiman (via bodymindandsoul)
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“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– Nicole Krauss (via nouvelliste)
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via hatefulofhollow)
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“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cosy rain. This is the kind the anonymous...”
– Susan Allen Toth (via starsmending)
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via theunabridgedjournalsof)
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melancholy notes: The Birth of Feeling →
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from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“Feelings are not as old as time. Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time joy was felt, and a first time for sadness. For a while, new feelings were being invented all the time….
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via michellemacnamara)