January 2010
69 posts
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) submitted by: athousandthoughtsperminute (via quote-book) (via infinitebutterflies)
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything...”
– Marc Jacobs (via quote-book) (via melissabetty) (via booklover)
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough (via pacificcru) (via kendalllouise) (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland)
kari-shma:
Corrine Bailey Rae | Like a star
“But the books you like must also be read with shudders and gasps… Literature,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, in his rather critical lecture on Dostoevksy, arguing that while there is pleasure to be taken in dismantling mediocre literature it is just as necessary to interrogate and re-imagine one’s favorite works. (via mills)
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via winterlief) (via booklover)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger (via fatalistichues) (via tulletulle) (via honeyhands) (via smellslikesunshine) (via libraryland)
“It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel....”
– Henry Rollins (via thechocolatebrigade) (via tobia) (via helloclarice) (via nihilnoetia)
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (via nihilnoetia)
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via rondamarie) (via dostoyevsky) (via enormousair) (via booklover)
“in the depth of winter, i finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
–
albert camus
(via scribble-scribbles)
“one day i will find the right words, and they will be simple”
–
jack kerouac
(via scribble-scribbles)
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe...”
– John Lennon (via yourhappyplace) (via quote-book)
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as...”
– Emily Giffin (via kari-shma)
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus (via nihilnoetia)
“The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Tolstoy (via zombietown) (via libraryland)
“Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that...”
– Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (via quote-book)
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via kari-shma)
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.”
– Spanish Proverb (via julie911) (via quote-book)