January 2010
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Charles Baudelaire, "On Photography", Salon 1859 →
frenchtwist:
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A madness, an extraordinary fanaticism took possession of all these new sun-worshippers. Each day art further diminishes its self-respect by bowing down before external reality; each day the painter becomes more and more given to painting not what he dreams but what he sees. Nevertheless it is a happiness to dream, and it used to be a glory to express what one dreamt. But I ask...
Love & Life by Albert Einstein
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Sometimes in our relentless effort to find the person we love, we fail to recognize and appreciate the people who love us. We miss out on so many beautiful things simply because we allow ourselves to be enslaved by our own selfish concerns.
Go for the man/woman of deeds and not for the man/woman of words, for you will find rewarding happiness, not with the man/woman you love...
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Victor Hugo
Aimons toujours ! Aimons encore ! Quand l’amour s’en va, l’espoir fuit. L’amour, c’est le cri de l’aurore, L’amour c’est l’hymne de la nuit.
Ce que le flot dit aux rivages, Ce que le vent dit aux vieux monts, Ce que l’astre dit aux nuages, C’est le mot ineffable : Aimons !
L’amour fait songer, vivre et...
Pierre de Ronsard
from Sonnets pour Hélène
Si c’est aimer, Madame, et de jour et de nuict, Resver, songer, penser le moyen de vous plaire, Oublier toute chose, et ne vouloir rien faire Qu’adorer et servir la beauté qui me nuit, Si c’est aimer, de suivre un bonheur qui me fuit, De me perdre moymesme et d’estre solitaire, Souffrir beaucoup de mal, beaucoup craindre et me taire, Pleurer, crier mercy, et m’en...
“If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the...”
– Cassandra Clare (via justbesplendid)
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Bakit mas napapabilis ang pagresolba sa mga krimen...
Here, Sasha: link to the Vonnegut letter. ;) →
A Poet Recalls Fiction
moviescriptendings:
by Norm Sacuta
I have trouble with friends who want to know what happened. And no, I’m not missing the forest for the trees - the genus, size and shape, even when the author cares enough, will escape me later, become a forgotten shadow at the edge of the moors. I am the worst witness of another witness, read pages and pages without memory of a character’s features. My...
Excerpt from Nolledo's short story, Rice Wine. →
I read this last night. It came in Sir DM’s care package. Had a hard time grasping it so I might read it again. But you must read this. You must read what is written about us by our writers.
It’s stunning.
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i really tried to stay away...
but it isn’t happening…
I want ice cream and the promise that we’ll all be okay. Read the first story of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book Interpreter of Maladies and cried me a river.
p.s. @decouvrir thank you for your message. it was sweet of you to drop a line.
What does your February book-list look like? What do you think should be read in February?
Postscript: J.D. Salinger →
givemesomethingtoread:
J. D. Salinger has died. From 1946 to 1965, Salinger published thirteen stories in The New Yorker including such classics as “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.” There will be much more to come online and in next week’s magazine, but for now, we are making twelve of his New Yorker stories available to all readers through our digital...
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Before I forget!
Leave me a message if you’re free? Tell me anything you want or if you’re that big a Tumblr lover, you can ask me something too. :)
How was your day?
Mini-Tumblr Hiatus. →
Too much coffee, too little sleep and a whole set of stories to read and books to finish before January goes away. :) Be happy everyone!
“When we read a story, we inhabit it.
The covers of the book are like a roof and...”
– ~ John Berger (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...”
– -Gilda Radner (via artpixie) (via orientalpopcorn)
Dear Gilda Radner,
You died of cancer and in your memory your friends put up a center that now helps a lot of people. What sort of person might you have been to have moved a whole set of people to act for other? I think and am now certain that all...
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture...”
– — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via justbesplendid) (via coccaonthinks) (via booklover)
Yes, Goethe. Yes.
