January 2012
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First Sorrow
A trapeze artist—this art, practiced high in the vaulted domes of the great variety theaters, is admittedly one of the most difficult humanity can achieve—had so arranged his life that, as long as he kept working in the same building, he never came down from his trapeze by night or day, at first only from a desire to perfect his skill, but later because custom was too strong for him. All his...
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s...
– Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living
and thanks for coming back dear proustitute.
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When people ask, she will say that her favorite country is one that has not yet...
– Madeleine Thien, the-final-sentence of “Bullet Train”
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SOPA Timeline →
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Being Dead While You’re Alive — That’s Real Death.
– Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin on Death and Dreams
from biblioklept
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We can die if all we’ve done is love.
– Fernando Pessoa
Bernardo Soares, The Book of Disquiet (Text 234)
thanks to fake poet
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best of 2011 →
thanks to defrag & firsttimeuser
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We are sinful, not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also...
– Aphorisms #83, Franz Kafka The Zurau
from kerwinwp
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