October 2011
130 posts
“there is more than one kind of freedom. freedom to and freedom from. during the...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong,...”
– J.D. Salinger,Franny and Zooey (via thebeathotel)
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
– Tennessee Williams (via trua)
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (via echtra)
“There are three values: Feel good, be good, and do good.”
– Yogi Bhajan (via thelittlesea)
“If you dwell only in your suffering you will miss paradise. Don’t ignore your...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via thelittlesea)
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
– Stephen Covey (via elemenop)
“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a...”
– Vladimir Nabokov; Lolita (via nouraabdul)
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via bookoasis)
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– — Neil Gaiman (via likestitches)
“Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via her0inchic)
“I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer...”
– Possibilities by Wisława Szymborska (translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Claire Cavanagh)
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger (via october-searchingeyes)
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via misswallflower)
“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession...”
– Paul Valéry, “Some Fragments from Poe’s Marginalia” (via senseofchampagnechic)
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via asleepingforest)
I like you calm, as if you were absent →
I like you calm, as if you were absent, and you hear me far-off, and my voice does not touch you. It seems that your eyelids have taken to flying: it seems that a kiss has sealed up your mouth Since all these things are filled with my spirit, you come from things, filled with my spirit. You…
“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily,...”
– Virginia Woolf,To The Lighthouse. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even...”
– e.e. (via therevolutionwillbeblogged)
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
Faber Castell advert →
the simplicity. the lines.
“If you want what visible reality
can give, you’re an employee.
If you want the...”
– Rumi (via missfolly)
Plywood artworks →
beautiful use of lines, colours and layers. love it.
The Antidote: The Eternity by Arthur Rimbaud →
theantidote:
It’s found again.
What? - Eternity.
It’s the sea gone off
With the sun.
Sentinel soul,
Let’s whisper the confession
Of night’s nothingness
And day ablaze.
From human approvals,
And common impulses,
There you free yourself,
And fly, it all depends.
Since only from you,
Embers of satin,
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“Extreme hardship is the truest test of friendships. Waste little time thinking...”
– (via journalofanobody)
Tanka
journalofanobody:
The light of the moon
illuminates my way home
and shines in my dreams.
It’s pale light reveals the path
to the past, to other worlds.
—Michael Boiano, from the “Things I Miss” series
