mai 2012
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“Life became less easy for me: when the body is sad, the heart languishes. It...”
– The Fall by Albert Camus
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“The lines of forests, coasts, deserts, and glaciers.
Amid these landscapes...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from Tortures
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“…I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning...”
– “The Wasteland,” T.S. Eliot
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“Music is breath … Its
enigmatic echoes are
full of silent chords”
– Kandinsky
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“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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“In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“Deeply, he felt the love for the runaway in his heart, like a wound, and he felt...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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I would not sing you to sleep. I would press my lips to your ear and hope the terror in my heart stirs you.
LULLABY by Reetika Vazirani
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“For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight;
There was sun dazzle before you,...”
– Louis Dudek, from “For E. P.” in The Poetry of Louis Dudek
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“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“It was a breath of wind, that, twisting your great tresses,
Brought strange...”
– Ophelia, by Arthur Rimbaud
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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Einstein
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“I said to the sun tell me about the big bang. The sun said “it hurts to...”
– Andrea Gibson, I Sing the Body Electric
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“My soul is a hidden orchestra ; I know not what instruments, what...”
– The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
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“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
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“I’ve often lost myself in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.”
– Federico García Lorca
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“Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames.”
– Rumi
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“I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the...”
– Rumi
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List of Words To Know #3 →
Malapert - clever in manners of speech Duende - unusual power to attract or charm Concilliabule - a secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot Strikhedonia - the pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it” Lygerastia - the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out Ayurnamat - the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed...
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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“My silences are immaculate.”
– Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
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“Toska: Russian – Vladimir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English...”
– After The Storm: Toska
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“Why do you want to die? Why don’t you want to exist? If you don’t want to...”
– Jhang Moon-Jin
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“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“this morning i suddenly catch myself: i’m not there, i’m so lost in thought, i...”
– Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
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“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of...”
– Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa” 