December 2010
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"I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free ---- The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet." -Sylvia Plath, from "Tulips"
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
– Oscar Wilde
my bones are sleepy
I’m almost convinced that I’m never awake.
– Fernando Pessoa
‘There’ll be bluebells in there before long - you can see the shoots now,’ I...
– I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith.
Drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.)
Life is continuous, and is Infinite.
– Edgar Cayce
Life is continuous, and is Infinite.
– Edgar Cayce
“‘What are you whispering today?’ I asked.
He stopped, thought a little, and...
– Family Happiness by Lev Tolstoy
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
Margaret Atwood
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...
– Sylvia Plath
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then...
– Crush by Richard Siken
food is making me feel nauseous today