February 2012
17 posts
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Feb 25th
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“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,...”
– Henry Miller (via thisbeautifulwound)
Feb 20th
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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)
Feb 20th
1 note
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“The being I am waiting for is not real.”
– Roland Barthes (via mythologyofblue)
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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“The will […] is the driving force of the mind. If it’s injured, the...”
– August Strindberg. The Father. 
Feb 17th
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“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius […] is best brought out...”
– Ginsberg (via…) 
Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
936 notes
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“She is solid. As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.”
– Anne Sexton (via speakmnemosyne)
Feb 14th
13 notes
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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)
Feb 14th
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“Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the...”
– Matthew 24:29 (via speakmnemosyne)
Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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“March 19. Hysteria making me surpringsingly and unaccountably unhappy.”
–  Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923 (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Feb 9th
22 notes
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Feb 8th
18 tags
Feb 8th
2,967 notes
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“- Quel est le privilège des morts ? - Ne plus mourir.”
– Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville. (via melancholiaswallow)
Feb 8th
9 notes
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Feb 8th
459 notes
January 2012
12 posts
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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 + (via mythologyofblue)
Jan 30th
50 notes
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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)
Jan 27th
234 notes
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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)
Jan 25th
114 notes
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Nostalgia makes fools of us all.
Jan 25th
1 note
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“…since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.”
– John Donne, from “The Funeral” (via proustitute)
Jan 25th
297 notes
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Jan 24th
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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). 
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
72 notes
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Jan 6th
369 notes
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
– Whitman
Jan 6th
December 2011
11 posts
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“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
– Charles Bukowski
Dec 19th
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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)
Dec 15th
204 notes
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Dec 10th
466 notes
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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.
Dec 10th
159 notes
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“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power...”
– Albert Einstein (via quixoticnarcotix)
Dec 10th
117 notes
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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (via moldavia)
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
1,196 notes
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Dec 2nd
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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)
Dec 2nd
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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)
Dec 2nd
385 notes
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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via TFTD)
Dec 2nd
November 2011
17 posts
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“I felt as archaic as prayer”
– Sherman Alexie. From “10-4,” a poem recently published in Narrative Magazine.
Nov 30th
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Nov 28th
13 notes
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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
Nov 28th
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Nov 20th
64 notes
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Nov 20th
22 notes
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Nov 20th
254 notes
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Nov 16th
147 notes
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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...
Nov 16th
43 notes
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I wish I was pre-I.
Nov 16th
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Nov 12th
363 notes