December 2011
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“But you’re not here,
You’re nowhere near at all
Just skin and...”
– 36 Crazyfists
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“You are not alone. You are instead lonely. There is loneliness as can exist only...”
– James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement
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“I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.”
– Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
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“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
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“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy,...”
– Aldous Huxley
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WatchEmika - Professional Loving
I love, you love, this love. We’re professional. I know, you know, we’re sophisticated at loving, loving, loving… We’re professional. What every taste declined… I’m wondering why What every taste declined… I’m wondering why, I’m wondering why why why… I want you to hold me You’re in every dream
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“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
– Albert Camus
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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think...”
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“She did not want to go to work, although she was very late; and so she remained...”
– James Alan McPherson, Hue and Cry
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“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
– Dave Eggers
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“I wanted
the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish” in Dream Work
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help... →
“We’re suspended for a moment on this spinning blue pearl, here together and alive right now, conscious, though no one knows why. It is a question of caring. When one of us considers the experiences of another, all the failings and the achievements in someone else’s life, we are seeing from this common place, knowing that it’s all taking place in doubt and the absolute solitude and terror...
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“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902
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“I have had—to be frank—a bad and worried and depressed and inconvenient winter…”
– Henry James, from a letter to Edith Wharton, 19 April 1909
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“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...”
– Shana Abe
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“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
– Larissa Szporluk, from “Sea Lettuce”
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“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
– Margaret Atwood
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Flapper
in the 1920s was a term applied to a “new breed” of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual...
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error →