May 2013
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underenuciation of the overly felt
“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (via slanting)
“I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via delicateswans)
“… sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sunset” in Selected Poems, trans. Robert Bly (via proustitute)
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“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western...”
– Carl Gustav Jung on watering the roots of the Philosophical Tree (via fourteenth)
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“[T]hat’s what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps...”
– Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable (via invisiblestories)
April 2013
49 posts
“The perpetual ideal is astonishment.”
– Derek Walcott (via invisiblestories)
“We must wait and seize the images that arise in us, naked, natural, excessive,...”
– Antonin Artaud (via rawforms)
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of...”
– Dylan Thomas
Originally posted by nunofgouveia1
(via loverofbeauty)
“To be human means to dwell in the openness of time, in defiance of the oblivion...”
– Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. (via batarde)
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
(via creatingaquietmind)
“Poor travellers, I thought, myself among them: always somewhere else.”
– W.G. Sebald - Vertigo (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Bend your pen into a plowshare.”
– Raymond Carver, “Put Yourself in My Shoes” as found in Where I’m Calling From (via mythologyofblue)
