February 2012
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“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“Is there no way out of the mind?”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Apprehensions”
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“We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell
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Haruki Murakami: 1Q84
Aomame pressed an ear against his chest. “I’ve been lonely for so long. And I’ve been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn’t have had to take all these detours to get here.”
Tengo shook his head. “I don’t think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us.”
Aomame started to cry. The tears she had been holding back...
Soulmates
they say the pain you feel after a breakup was the same you go through during a withdrawal. it affected the same brain area and had to be treated in the same way: you needed distance from the drug and you needed patience. then, they say, the signs of withdrawal would disappear. sooner or later. of course there was a risk of relapse too, but - thanks to the kind of drug a lover represents - ...
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“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily...”
– Yakov Smirnoff
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Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.
I let my oars fall into the water. Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want.
The night is so still that I forget to breathe. The dark air is getting colder. Birds are leaving.
Tonight there are people getting just what they need.
The air is so still that it seems to stop my heart. I remember you in a black and white...
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“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else...”
– David Levithan
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“Random thoughts for Valentine’s day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by...”
– Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), directed by Michel Gondry
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
cordate \KAWR-deyt, adjective: 1. Heart-shaped. 2. (Of leaves) heart-shaped, with the attachment at the notched end.
Without any wind blowing, the sheer weight of a raindrop, shining in parasitic luxury on a cordate leaf, caused its tip to dip, and what looked like a globule of quicksilver performed a sudden glissando down the center vein, and then, having shed its bright load, the relieved...
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“I’ve got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (July 1950 - July 1953)
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“if you do not love me I shall not be loved
if I do not love you I shall not...”
– Samuel Beckett, “Cascando”
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“Let them sift through the ashes
with their burned hands. Let them
tell us what...”
– Shirley Kaufman, from “Looking for Prophets”
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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The Unabriged Journals of Sylvia Plath:
22 November 1955 - 18 April 1956
I read his letter and walked the wet pine-dark path tonight, with the warm rain dripping and shiny on the black leaves in the humid blurred starlight, crying and crying with this terrible pain; it hurts, father, it hurts, oh father I have never known, a father, even, they took from me. It all sounds so simple and ridiculous: I found out today that I am deeply and...
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“there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak.
I am left
shut,
the...”
– Stella Padnos, from “Start/The Stopping”
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“Hope: the following page. Do not close the book.”
– Edmond Jabès, From the Book to the Book, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop
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“For the lover, it is the night into which his beloved goes … that destroys his...”
– Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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“sway with me, everything sad —
madmen in stone houses
without doors,...”
– Charles Bukowsk, sway with me
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“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– Jon Krakauer
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