May 2012
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The smoky offspring of the full moon,
white marble in the twilight avenues,...
– Anna Akhmatova
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A Day in the Life of a Roger Federer Fan →
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What empties itself falls into the place that is open.
– Jane Hirschfield, from “A Hand” (via proustitute)
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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only...
– Thomas Mann (via absea)
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look...
– Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death (via larmoyante)
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the...
– Rachel Carson (via thepaintedveil)
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For years, I have come to sit this way:
one hand open, one hand closed…
– Aracelis Girmay, from “Consider the Hands that Write This Letter” (via proustitute)
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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint,...
– Vincent Van Gogh (via julie911)
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I’ve noticed that very few people are scary once they’ve been poked in the eye.
– Dr. Temperance Brennan, Bones (via followthebluebutterfly)
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He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang...
– Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret (via twistednuns)
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Free Documentaries streamed online →
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A doctor once told me I feel too much.
I said, “So does God
That’s why you can...
– Andrea Gibson, from “Jellyfish” (via growing-orbits)
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growing-orbits:
Summer
Summer, brilliant at the door wide, sweet shawl, green cicada bird calls, wild by the feeder and showers glisten on the rocks
and Woolf, hillocks, hammock, sea and rapture and nothing breaks just the sun’s spine on yours
just laughter with long teeth.
— Santiago
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We grow up being told that anger is bad. Good girls do not express their anger,...
– Flavia Dzodan, “Show them how to resist: Connecting girls, inspiring futures” at Tiger Beatdown (via unejeunedemoiselle)
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Here's an online library of over 400 free courses... →
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Louise Glück, "First Memory"
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Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was— for what I was: from the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
(source; submitted by shriven)
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My goal in life is not fame or fortune. It is simply to one day own a library...
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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
– Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
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