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Notes: 449 / 1 month ago
"If you can’t go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world—indeed, nowhere is the world."
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Aleksandar Hemon
from The Lazarus Project
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Notes: 522 / 2 months ago
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
- Ansel Adams
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Notes: 581 / 2 months ago
from liquidnight
"…everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."
- David Foster Wallace,
Infinite Jest (via
liquidnight)
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Notes: 210 / 3 months ago
from frenchtwist
"Life is the farce we all perform."
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Notes: 546 / 4 months ago
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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Notes: 53 / 6 months ago
"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
- from Wanted, a New Pleasure, 1931 by Aldous Huxley [July 26, 1894 -November 22, 1963]
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Notes: 424 / 6 months ago
"Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can’t live alone, you were born a slave."
- Fernando Pessoa - Bernardo Soares, ”The Book of Disquiet” (from Text 283)
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Notes: 100 / 8 months ago
"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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Notes: 198 / 9 months ago
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
- Henry Miller
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Notes: 139 / 10 months ago
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
- Henry David Thoreau
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Notes: 278 / 10 months ago
from proustitute
"There is another world but it is in this one."
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Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)
from proustitute
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Notes: 305 / 10 months ago
"I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."
- from Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, 1899 by W. B. Yeats
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Notes: 779 / 10 months ago
from fuckyeahexistentialism
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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Notes: 47 / 10 months ago
"The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune."
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Notes: 397 / 10 months ago
from liquidnight
"I couldn’t live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve."
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L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
from liquidnight