Posts tagged "lit"
  1. 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."
    -

    Aleksandar Hemon

    from The Lazarus Project

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  2. Notes: 580 / 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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  3. Notes: 272 / 5 months ago  from proustitute
    "… everything
    is wrapped silently in the snow’s winding sheet,
    I hear—long, doleful, blood-curdling—the howl of wolves
    invade you…"
    -

    Honoring the first snow with Angelos Sikelianos, from “Dionysus Encradled,”

    trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard


    thanks to modernworldlit and proustitute

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Notes: 560 / 7 months ago  from invisiblestories
    "Maybe the world hasn’t always been sad."
    -

    The first line of Miquel Bauca’s Carrer Marsala (trans. Martha Tennent)

    thanks to invisiblestories

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Notes: 139 / 10 months ago 
    "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
    - Henry David Thoreau
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  10. Notes: 278 / 10 months ago  from proustitute
    "There is another world but it is in this one."
    -

    Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)

    from proustitute

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  11. 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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  12. Notes: 47 / 10 months ago 
    "The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune."
    -

    Roberto Bolaño [April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003] , The Last Interview and Other Conversations

    [also & more @proustitute]

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  13. Notes: 9014 / 10 months ago  from frenchtwist
    "I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
    - Franz Kafka, Letters from frenchtwist
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  14. Notes: 124 / 11 months ago 
    "An artist is not there to be at one with the world, he is there to transform it."
    -  Anaïs Nin
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  15. Notes: 387 / 12 months ago  from proustitute
    "I am learning to see."
    -

    Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, trans. Burton Pike

    from proustitute

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