February 2012
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,...
– Henry Miller
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I believe in work. If somebody doesn’t create something, however small it may...
– Arthur Miller (via Pale Queen’s Literary Quotes)
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The being I am waiting for is not real.
– Roland Barthes
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The will […] is the driving force of the mind. If it’s injured, the...
– August Strindberg. The Father.
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius […] is best brought out...
– Ginsberg
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She is solid.
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
– Anne Sexton (via speakmnemosyne)
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to...
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via bookmania)
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Immediately after the distress of
those days the sun will be darkened,
and the...
– Matthew 24:29
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March 19. Hysteria making me surpringsingly and unaccountably unhappy.
– Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923 (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
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- Quel est le privilège des morts ?
- Ne plus mourir.
– Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville. (via melancholiaswallow)
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
– Horace Mann (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
January 2012
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can...
– Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for...
– John Donne, from “Holy Sonnet XIV” (via luxehours)
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If an answer were possible death would not travel alongside life, life would not...
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
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Nostalgia makes fools of us all.
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…since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
– John Donne, from “The Funeral” (via proustitute)
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Deeply into the Bone” is not a how-to book with step-by-step instructions...
– Ronald Grimes, Deeply into the Bone: Re-inventing Rites of Passage, (2000).
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
– Whitman
December 2011
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
– Charles Bukowski
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But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via proustitute)
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But the balance between truth and fantasy must be very careful.
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 22 October 1927 (via proustitute)
I couldn’t agree more.
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power...
– Albert Einstein (via quixoticnarcotix)
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...
– Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (via moldavia)
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They drop the book when it grows clear to them
that the two people in the book...
– Jorge Luis Borges. Inferno, V, 129. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
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If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
– Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway (via effyeahliteraryquotes)
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume...
– George Bernard Shaw (via TFTD)
November 2011
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I felt as archaic as prayer
– Sherman Alexie. From “10-4,” a poem recently published in Narrative Magazine.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as...
– J.W. Goethe
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The Educational Lottery
lareviewofbooks:
STEVEN BRINT on the four kinds of heretics attacking the gospel of education. Felicity Allen, ed. Education Whitechapel/MIT Press (Documents of Contemporary Art), August 2011. 240 pp. Philip W. Jackson What Is Education? University of Chicago Press, December 2011. 136 pp. John Marsh Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality Monthly Review...
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I wish I was pre-I.
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