January 2011
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all...
– John Steinbeck (via bunnymitford) (via earlyfrost)
Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can’t Live It. I can’t even explain. I know...
– — Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via bunnymitford) (via awritersruminations, bunnymitford)
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...
– - John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via thegirlwiththemessyhair)
this made me smile =P
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In China, pearls were thought to be raindrops swallowed by oysters. The Chinese...
– (via ratak-monodosico)
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
– Zora Neale Hurston (via deadwriters)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present,...
– Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via quote-book)
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
– Edvard Munch (1863-1944). (via petitessedespassions)
We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...
– Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, David Foster Wallace (via ourcatastrophe)
Our ‘minds’, ‘souls’, ‘spirit’ and consciousness are all physical in nature....
– “Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism” by Vexen Crabtree (2007).
Consciousness is a product of the Universe, and not the other way round. Biology as the cause of life is also the cause of consciousness. There is simply no reason to presume that simply...
I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much,...
– Theodore Isaac Rubin (via melancholynotes)
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I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood,...
– Before Sunset (via kindelling)
The most common place for adults to have sex...
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
– Pablo Neruda (via thesaltwaternight)