February 2012
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Sherlock Soundtrack Series 2| Sherlocked...
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“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It occurs to me that,
when I die,
they might find the necklace
I dropped...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via holdonmagnolia)
I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane. (Florence Welsh)
“I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some...”
– (Anaïs Nin)
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We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. (David Levithan)
I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. (Peter Cameron)
Leaving the Empty Room
(Stephen Dunn)
The door had a double lock, and the joke was on me. You might call it protection against self, this joke, and it wasn’t very funny: I kept the door locked in order to think twice. The room itself: knickknacks, chairs, and a couch, the normal accoutrements. And yet it was an empty room, if you know what I mean. I had a ticket in my head: Anytime, it said,...
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine...”
– Charles Bukowski (via ratak-monodosico)
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
(Teilhard de Chardin)
“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are...”
– (via talkingtokafka)
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and...
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
