February 2012
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“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample,...”
– Primo Levi
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“She had to break with him or they would have been destroyed, both of them...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is...”
– Primo Levi
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“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits. (via onlyafterdark)
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“You cannot say, or guess, for you only know a heap of broken images.”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Burial of the Dead”
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“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“You cannot have love if you are not at peace with yourself.”
– by Jacob Sabolo (via meanwhile-mumla)
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“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via bookmania)
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“This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain; The pitiless hours like years and ages creep, A night seems termless hell. This dreadful strain Of thought and consciousness which never ceases, Or which some moment’s stupor but increases, This, worse than woe, makes wretches there insane. - James Thompson, “City of Dreadful Night”
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“But now I know I just look like the kid I was trying to erase.”
– Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
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“I’m not well again and once more darkness descends.”
– Laura Marling, “Darkness Descends”
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“Tell him that we will be swallowed by darkness if nothing drastic happens right...”
– Beginners
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“Although there were elements of tragedy and struggle in the Fifth Symphony, he...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
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“And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges,...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via airshipsandwaves)
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“GOD: I own you like I own the caves.
THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison....”
– Dave Eggers, How We are Hungry (via madeofglass-)
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“My mind has fucked me over more times than any man could ever know.”
– Laura Marling, “New Romantic”
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“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
– Andy Warhol (via defeating)
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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies
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“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via nnautica)
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“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via decrepito)