August 2011
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And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via waterinmyveins)
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
– Neil Gaiman (via quote-book)
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A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
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I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m...
– The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (via thebookishdark)
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You will always be part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we have shared at some time the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
-Anais Nin / Henry and June
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally - the way that driver...
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via liquidnight)
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t....
– Haruki Murakami (via moldavia)
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Profound Thought No. 1
Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without understanding and, like flies constantly banging against the same old windowpane, they buzz around, suffer, waste away, get depressed then wonder how they got caught up in this spiral that is taking them where they don’t want to go. The most intelligent among them...
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The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t...
– Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (via funeral)
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schlimmbesserung
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noun • a so-called improvement that makes things worse
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5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness is... →
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This is a great article explaining why so many people feel miserable nowadays; the goal that we’re all longing to reach is a myth. And this is something I think about all of the time. It’s impossible to be happy 24/7 (or pet puppies all the time like the article states). We aren’t happy because we don’t understand what happiness is.
Think about it.
This is so...
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The things that are close to you are the things that you can photograph the...
– Sally Mann’s advice to young photographers (via cavetocanvas)
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Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot...
– Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)
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That Kind Of Woman: Life Story →
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by Tennessee Williams
After you’ve been to bed together for the first time, without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance, the other party very often says to you, Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you, what’s your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up a cigarette and...
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