March 2013
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“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
—Gustave Flaubert
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“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”
– Henry James
(via leslieseuffert)
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February 2013
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fuckyeahhotdwarves:
lizchester:
How does
How does les mis win over THE HOBBIT
THEY MADE PEOPLE INTO DWARVES
SERIOUSLY????? How did these insane fucking transformations
lose to Dirtyface McBuzzcut???!
Who are you calling dirty face? Man, not like you’re any better.
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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via larmoyante)
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All of Them Are Burning →
Your present, your future, your path
from one to the other.
It’s not a bad thing, really.
What more do you need
that a little skin to cover your heart,
a little heart
to cover your losses, a little loss
to hold you in this place
that may not be a place
but is the only place you stand a chance
of finding a way to live.
You get credit for trying
to live when you never have,
for...
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apoetreflects:
Though I have touched her flesh of moons, Still she sits gestureless and mute, Drowning cool pearls in alcohol. O blameless shyness;—innocence dissolute!
—Hart Crane, opening stanza to “Modern Craft” from Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Liveright, 1989)
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apoetreflects:
“What would happen if, in place of the sufferings poets had experienced, they wrote about the sufferings they’d inflicted?”
—Sherod Santos, from “Subject Matters: Inklings, Second Sights, Chance Encounters” in A Poetry of Two Minds (The University of Georgia Press, 2000)
The suffering we inflict results in the suffering we experience. Often one and the same. We inflict it upon...
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apoetreflects:
I like to entertain the wish everyone would forgive me (even say nice things about me) when I simply lie down one day at long last to give birth to my no longer being (here).
—Franz Wright, opening lines to “Delirium” in God’s Silence (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
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“I look at myself but I’m missing.
I know myself: it’s not me.”
– Fernando Pessoa; from “O cat playing in the street…” (January 1931), in Fernando Pessoa-Himself, translated by Richard Zenith (via growing-orbits)
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“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via mirroir)
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January 2013
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (via justbesplendid)
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“Our world is merely a practical joke of God.”
– Franz Kafka (via mycolorbook)
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The Power of Negative Thinking →
One pioneer of the “negative path” was the New York psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who died in 2007. He rediscovered a key insight of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome: that sometimes the best way to address an uncertain future is to focus not on the best-case scenario but on the worst.
Seneca the Stoic was a radical on this matter. If you feared losing your wealth, he once...
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