August 2011
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.”
– Buddha (via maluna)
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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes...”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via 1920s-complex)
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aesthetically uninteresting
themadeshop:
It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and values in this country is one of the things that’s gutted our generation. All the things that my parents said to me, like “It’s really important not to lie.” OK, check, got it. I nod at that but I really don’t feel it. Until I get to be about 30 and I realize that if I lie to you, I also can’t...
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“It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...”
– T. S. Eliot (via looking-into-the-abyss)
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“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone...”
– Sir Arthur Eddington (via rollandrise)
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that...”
– A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf (via sketchofthepast)
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Things They Might Never Tell You 001 →
danharmon:
Thirty seconds after it gets easy, you will forget how hard it was. Time does not advance 1 second per second. It advances 1 important moment at a time. You have less and less of these as you get used to them, therefore, the older you get, the faster time goes. [I assume] you can jump out of as many airplanes as you want, and the above fact will never change. The reason for this...
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“You see things; and you say “Why?”
But I dream things that never were; and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via quote-book)
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“How many people would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard the word?”
– La Rochefoucauld
{via} (via themadeshop)
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“”I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent...”
– Groucho Marx (via sheisfireflying)
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“I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.”
– John Ashbery (via theparisreview)
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“The important thing is the obvious thing nobody is saying”
– William S. Burroughs (via acatexis)
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via amorinfantil)
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“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (thank you Rosie)
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
May I present a few beautiful words from a beautiful friend…
❤ J ❤
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For those who often say, “I can’t draw” in lieu of seeing art that impresses them.
This bears repeating to those who default to dissing themselves as artists when they compliment an artist’s work.-
All art is just “doing”. Saying “I can...
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frenchtwist:
she undresses in the paradise of her memory she’s unaware of her visions’ fierce fate she’s scared of not knowing how to name what does not exist
Alejandra Pizarnik
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