December 2011
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He breaks into that signature smile of his, and for the first time, I find it...
– Alexandra Monir (Time Keeper)
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
– Roland Barthes
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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road -...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Be drunk in love, since love is everything that exists.
– Rumi
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
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Notes to myself
Danielle, your life is not a movie, nor is it a television show.
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Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or...
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
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Je est un autre.
(I is another).
– Rimbaud
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mythologyofblue:
I certainly was not planning to embark on anything so long, I wanted to write books that did not exceed the capacity of my head, if I can put it that way, that I could skim through panoptically. But something like a wave began to get bigger and bigger and to engulf me, as though it was saying to me “Don’t be so cautious with your own life.”
-Pascal Quignard, from Wandering...
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Il tempo e il mare hanno di queste pause.
– M. Luzi, Sulla riva