June 2012
May 2012
how to disappear completely and never be found again
“I sat on a gray stone bench
ringed with the ingenue faces
of pink and white...”
– Lisel Mueller, from “When I Am Asked” (via proustitute)
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet
“I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart,...”
– Anton Chekhov
“For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (via frenchtwist)
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“Life is no more than a continual search for something to cling to. One gets up...”
– Anonymous, ‘At Daggers Drawn’ (via doesnotequal)
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“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals...”
– Samura Koichi (quoted by Chris Marker in his film ‘Sans Soleil’)
April 2012
“I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.”
– Stanisław Lem
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
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“In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the...”
– Charles Baudelaire
“One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live...”
– Albert Camus, The Rebel
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“But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this...”
– Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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