May 2013
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“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and...”
– First Fig, Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I love and, next to...”
– “On His Seventy-fifth Birthday”, Walter Savage Landor
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April 2013
14 posts
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“may i feel said he
(i’ll squeal said she
just once said he)
it’s...”
– E.E. Cummings
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“Folks, I’m telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean —
so get yourself...”
– Advice from Langston Hughes
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“Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits....”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
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“When I worked at a newspaper, we were routinely dispatched to...”
– David Shields via Malcolm Gladwell (!), “Reality Hunger”
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March 2013
14 posts
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“You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, “Either/Or” (via stackofbooks)
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“I thought, please don’t grow
familiar. I think I said it out loud
Please don’t...”
– Olena Kalytiak Davis, excerpt from “All the Natural Movements of the Soul”
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“Their judgment was based more on wishful thinking than on a sound calculation of...”
– Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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“I don’t go to parties. Well, what are they for,
If you don’t need...”
– Being Boring, Wendy Cope
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February 2013
10 posts
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“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a...”
– Rumi
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“Science—
beyond pheromones, hormones, aesthetics of bone,
every time I make...”
– Katherine Larson, from “Love at Thirty-Two Degrees” (via proustitute)
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