January 2012
103 posts
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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to...”
– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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“This is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via sorakeem)
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“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the...”
– Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember,...”
– Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921 (via arquitecturademilnoches)
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“This world is mere change, and this life, mere opinion.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“The time that any man doth live is but a little, and the place where he lives is...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“You belong to a singular race. Every man is a suffering-machine and a...”
– Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
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Ricky Nelson, Teenage Idol
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“Of suns and worlds I’ve nothing to be quoted:
How men torment themselves,...”
– Goethe, Faust
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“I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but...”
– Frank O’Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter
One of those poems I find myself rereading every couple of months