September 2010
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“In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of...”
– Cormac McCarthy
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curate: When you say things like “We have to wipe... →
curate:
“When you say things like “We have to wipe out the Taliban,” what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
We’re seeing this superpower, in a way, caught in quicksand with a conceptual inability to understand what it’s doing, how to get out or how to stay...
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of...”
– John Keats (via reveillerlimagination)
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“It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know...”
– On the Road - Jack Kerouac (via hazelweatherfield)
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“The entire universe is in fact a single living conscious organism with complete...”
– Kymatica (via xn—7xa)
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neverneverland:
In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there’s a dune made of volcanic ash. The beautiful thing is that it moves bodily. It’s what’s technically known as a barchan, and the entire dune walks across the desert in a westerly direction at a speed of about 17 meters per year. It retains its crescent shape and moves in the direction of the horns....
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“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of...”
– bell hooks (via revolutionnow) (via tobia)
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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– Dalai Lama | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
“How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
– Cormac McCarthy (the Road)
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“Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how...”
– Cormac McCarthy (the Road)
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
– Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
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“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”
– Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990 (via sunriseprojector)
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“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
– Amy Tan (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
– C.S. Lewis (via aerialcircus)
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“(One of) The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
– Sue Monk Kidd (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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“The only thing I care about is the expression of man’s basic emotions: tragedy,...”
– Mark Rothko
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I'm so ridiculously relieved (and also a bit...
Today I had to be at the hospital for x-rays and an ultra sound, and thank god, I’m “perfectly healthy”. Trust me, lovelier words have never been uttered.
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Everything is Illuminated
wishbone666:
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lafinparfaite:
SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds, Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of...
Anonymous asked: What are your favourite movies?
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (libraryland)
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Had the most stressfull day...
… (had a doctor’s appointment I was absolutely dreading and I had to drive for more than an hour to have a look at just one appartment) but at least now I can say that I am the proud tenant of a fantastic studio ♥
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“I get my ideas out of my dreams… if you’re lucky enough to use something you see...”
– Alexander McQueen (via dralion)
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“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they...”
– Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life; 1923 (via sunriseprojector)
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Omnipotence paradox →
bestofwikipedia:
The omnipotence paradox is a family of related paradoxes addressing the question of whether the existence of an omnipotent entity is logically possible. The paradox states that if a being can perform any action, then it should be able to create a task it is unable to perform, and hence, it cannot perform all actions. Yet, on the other hand, if it cannot create a task it is...
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“She’s never where she is,” I said. “She’s only inside her head.”
– White Oleander (via dollyhaze)
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The Mystery of Pioneer 10 →
fuckyeahspace:
Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn’t what it seemed. That’s how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days. For more than three centuries, the basics of gravity were pretty well understood.
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Then more than a decade ago a researcher noticed...
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“There are moments when I’ve literally felt drowned in life. When circumstances...”
– Excerpt from Inferno (A Poet’s Novel) by Eileen Myles (via aclockwithouthands) 