January 2011
61 posts
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You know you're a bibliophile when... →
Just rambling about what to do with my books if I had to travel for a while. Or maybe not that per se but more, holy cow! What would I do without these shelves?!
What is to be done?: "When my finger... →
hegemon:
“Accidentaly, Werther’s finger touches Charlotte’s, their feet, under the table, happen to brush against each other. Werther might be engrossed by the meaning of these accidents; he might concentrate physically on these slight zones of contact and delight in this fragment of inert finger or foot,…
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“What was the point of fiction if not to edit one’s reality? If not to rewrite...”
– Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December (via readingandwritingjunkie)
“There is a great sense of pride that this is a leaderless movement organized by...”
– Sharif Abdel Kouddous- a senior producer for the radio/TV show Democracy Now. (via progressive-insanities)
That’s so beautiful.
Hi Leiron! I totally agree. :)
(via leiron)
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a...”
– Naguib Mahfouz, from the Cairo Trilogy.
It might be the best time to read this in full.
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“Bastion looked at the book.
‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book...”
– Michael Ende (The Neverending Story)
“Perhaps I was born kneeling,
born coughing on the long winter,
born expecting...”
– Anne Sexton, “Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women (from a song)” (Thank you, aubade Hope the law’s treating you okay. :) )
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is...”
– — T.H. White (via mlq3)
This really struck a chord tonight. Thank you, mlq3!
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”
– Federico Fellini (via jesuisperdu)
Rarr
dearoldlove:
I just wanted to fight dragons with you.
“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love...”
– Charles A. Lindbergh
“Reading is a conversation. Lunatics engage in imaginary dialogues which they...”
– Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary
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capucha:
“Parce que des lèvres libertines ou vénales lui avaient murmuré des phrases pareilles, il ne croyait que faiblement à la candeur de celles-là; on en devait rabattre, pensait-il, les discours exagérés cachant les affections médiocres; comme si la plénitude de l’âme ne débordait pas quelquefois par les métaphores les plus vides, puisque personne, jamais, ne peut donner l’exacte mesure de...
Nefertiti Meets Uncertainty: In Which Kalman Helps... →
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“Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started...”
– Just Kids, Patti Smith (via winterlief)
It’s eight in the morning
everyone has left
the New York Times had put itself to bed on Wednesday
or Thursday and arrived
this morning I feel pale
and read the difference between the Masai and the Kikuyu
one keeps and identifies
the other keeps and learns from “Early on Sunday” by Frank O’Hara
Thanks for posting this ephemerals.
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“I miss and yearn after”
– Sappho, fragment
[LP 36]
Jim Powell, trans.
(via aubade)
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“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he’s a painter,...”
– Pablo Picasso (via gwranda)
“When it’s cold and raining,
You are more beautiful.
And the snow brings...”
– Rumi
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January reading and some perspective. →
“when two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender...”
– Proust as quoted by Alain de Botton in How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Crashingly Beautiful: Welcome →
crashinglybeautiful:
if you believe nothing is always what’s left after a while, as I did, If you believe you have this collection of ungiven gifts, as I do (right here behind the silence and the averted eyes) If you believe an afternoon can collapse into strange privacies - how in your backyard, for example, the…
“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
via liquidnight (via frenchtwist)
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january dreaming: what i saw today that really,... →
“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how...”
– Michael Ondaatje (via mlq3)
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“ “Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If...”
– Czesław Miłosz (via amiquote)
Sometimes I wish I knew my followers better.
“One good thing about music: when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
– Bob Marley