March 2012
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“I never saw such a union of earth, sky, and sea. The clouds beneath our feet...”
– Dorothy Wordsworth
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“It’s the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing...”
– Julian Barnes
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“I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That...”
– William Wordsworth (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
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“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of...”
– W.B. Yeats (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)
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“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
They called me the hyacinth girl.” ...”
– T.S. Eliot (The Wasteland)
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense...”
– Horace Walpole
February 2012
43 posts
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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he...”
– Cervantes
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“Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? when did you look at...”
– Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra)
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“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a...”
– J.D. Salinger
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“From man’s blood-sodden heart are sprung
Those branches of the night and...”
– W.B. Yeats
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“A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external...”
– William James
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“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of...”
– Karl Barth
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“Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death...”
– Honore de Balzac
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“Other people die, but all that happened in the past,
the season (everyone...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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““Under the stars,’ she repeated. ‘I never noticed the stars...”
– F. Scott Ftizgerald
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“It isn’t given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously...”
– John Updike
cyclicalcyclical asked: same double major!!!! Ut here.
ekdromoi asked: so how old are you? are you in school? if so what major?
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“Yes, love, …but not the love that loves for something, to gain something,...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The...”
– William James
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“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far...”
– Thomas Wolf
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...”
– Jane Austen
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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our...”
– Henry James
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find...”
– John Muir
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“Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience...”
– Jacques Derrida
i-doesnotexist asked: Beautiful!
January 2012
90 posts
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“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly...”
– Elizabeth Bishop
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“I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the...”
– W.B. Yeats
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“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“I was perhaps an egotist in youth, but I soon found it made me morbid to think...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say.”
– E.M. Forster
