February 2012
53 posts
“We’re in deep shit, and we know it. But secretly, we don’t really believe that...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via absurdreasoning)
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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think
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““So I raise a morphine toast to you all. And if you should happen to remember it...”
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““She’s the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by...”
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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
D.H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
Karen Marie Moning
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“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
Andre Breton, What is Surrealism?
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few who had not been satisfied with their condition we would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilisation.
Eugene V Debs
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“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed,...”
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“Dreams are always crushing when they don’t come true. But it’s the...”
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“I don’t know. Just because someone’s pretty doesn’t mean...”
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves …”
Federica Garcia Lorca
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“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
Thomas Edison
(means something a little different now ..)
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“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
F.Scott Fitzgerald
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“Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
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“He made me feel unhinged … like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”
Chelsie Shakespeare
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“I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”
Jeannette Winterson
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can...
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“Be strong!
Don’t talk of ghosts and devils.
We are living devils.
The...”
– Swami Sivananda
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“You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can’t be anywhere except together”
Francesca Lia Black, Weetzie Bat
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
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“It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is...”
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“And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark...
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“You’ll never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment.”
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“The thing I never understood about love is that it can’t be quelled, like...”
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“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
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“The malicious have a dark happiness.”
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
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“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...”
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“He called me his ‘dream.’ I guess now I’ve become his...”
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“The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?”
Margaret...
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“I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the...”
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“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the...”
– C.S Lewis
(amen brother)
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“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing”
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“Make your survival mean something, or we are all doomed!”
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“Don’t worry about temptation—as you grow older, it starts avoiding...”
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“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks...”
– Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place 1950
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“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying...”
– Mark Twain
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“She was unequal to anyone’s wistfulness. She had made too little of her...”
– Lorrie Moore
