December 2010
32 posts
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“the earth laughs in flowers.”
– E.E. Cummings
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“I’m so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything,...”
– Kiera Van Gelder
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“Let go or be dragged.”
– Zen Proverb
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“The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or...”
– Henry Rollins
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“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I have finally concluded, maybe that’s what life is about: there’s a lot of...”
– Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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“There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“So it’s not about what you do. It can’t be, can it? It has to be about how you...”
– Nick Hornby, Juliet Naked
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“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”
– Night by Elie Wiesel
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“Anorexic and bulimic patients are considered recovered when they maintain a...”
– Know Thyself (via betterthanbones)
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“She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– E.E. Cummings
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“Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your...”
– Tom Perrotta, The Abstinence Teacher
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“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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“The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.”
– Isadora Duncan
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“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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“I’m a far more flawed human being than you realize. My sickness is a lot worse...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything. Maybe...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
– T.S. Eliot
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“To speak is to have too much consideration for others. Both fish and Oscar Wilde...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton
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“You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a...”
– E.E. Cummings
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“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me,...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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“It was as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“There are such things as false truths and honest lies.”
– Gypsy Proverb
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“If you’re not mean, you can do whatever you want that makes your life more worth...”
– Kate Bornstein