May 2012
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of...
– Virginia Woolf,The Voyage Out.
April 2012
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I don’t just want your heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones,...
– Isobel Thrilling (via lunaoki)
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A thousand dreams within me softly burn.
– Arthur Rimbaud
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March 2012
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Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
– Salman Rushdie
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be...
– Sylvia Plath (via 14books)
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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star....
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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I sit and I think about everything and everyone, and then nothing at all. Like a...
– Carma Bland, Midnight Confessions Journal
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born...
– Pearl S. Buck
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my...
– On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You
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I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald “My Lost City”
February 2012
17 posts
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I am alive and you are alive and so we must fill the air with our words.
– Dave Eggers
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She’s never where she is,” I said. “She’s only inside her head.
– White Oleander
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Why can’t rappers just say nice things? Like “I wanna take your clothes off and...
– Ellen Degeneres
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Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from...
– Philip K. Dick
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January 2012
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To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything...
– Ellen Bass
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. I loved it because it...
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more...
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
December 2011
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If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living...
– George Carlin
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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…An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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