September 2011
20 posts
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“After the Earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a...”
– Carl Sagan (via moonhymns)
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“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”
– and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day Virgil, via journalofanobody
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“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via tenderskin)
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“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we...”
– Milan Kundera, Immortality, via sensualizarin
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“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”
– William Faulkner (via journalofanobody)
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via proustitute)
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“Anywhere is walking distance, if you’ve got the time.”
– Steven Wright (American comedian, actor, and writer, 1955-)
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“As it turns out, now is the moment you’ve been waiting for.”
– Lucinda Williams (via kari-shma)
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
– Emily Dickinson (via intervals)
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“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
– Kurt Vonnegut , American writer (1922-2007)
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“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T.S. Eliot (via heartmindspirit)
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“the moment comes and is gone.”
– Michael Boiano via journalofanobody
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“When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.”
– John O’Donohue, via journalofanobody
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“And in today already walks tomorrow.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
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“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”
– Rupert Brooke (via quotesbitches)
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Just the same, I am very glad I shall never Be twenty and have to go through that business again, The hours of fuss and fury, the conceit, the expense.
W.H. Auden, from “The Sea and the Mirror,” via astonishments
August 2011
19 posts
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“Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the...”
– Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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“And the day goes by, but time stands still.”
– Knut Hamsun, Pan, via mythologyofblue
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“This is one moment
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden...”
– T. S. Eliot, from Murder in the Cathedral (via leopoldgursky)
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“There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.”
– Chaucer (via machiavellirising)
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“Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions....”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 4 January 1929, via proustitute
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“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
– Colette
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“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
– T. S. Eliot from “The Waste Land” via astonishments
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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...”
– Aldous Huxley (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, via elemenop
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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the...”
– Nelson Mandela (via weliveourlies)
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“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
– Carl Sagan (via mariposa-serendipia)
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“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this...”
– Walt Whitman (via myquotelibrary)
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“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “A Song for Simeon,” 1928, in Complete Poems and Plays (via proustitute)
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