September 2011
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Sep 12th
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“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via slekes)
Sep 10th
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August 2011
9 posts
Aug 23rd
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Aug 19th
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Aug 12th
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“I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel...”
– Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell (via juneandafter)
Aug 9th
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Aug 6th
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via thisismyhappyface)
Aug 6th
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Aug 1st
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July 2011
5 posts
Jul 31st
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Jul 14th
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“No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else’s island when...”
– Tove Jansson
Jul 8th
“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even...”
– Tove Jansson, Moominpapa at Sea. (via @whichdreamedit)
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June 2011
4 posts
Jun 23rd
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“Ours is a highly individualised culture, with a great faith in the work of art...”
– Angela Carter; quotes in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. [emphasis on ‘I’.]
Jun 23rd
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“So here is my profound thought for the day: this is the first time I have met...”
– Muriel Barbary, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Jun 7th
“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children...”
– Muriel Barbary, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Trans. Alison Anderson.
Jun 5th
May 2011
3 posts
“Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing...”
– Marianne, Sense and Sensibility; Jane Austen
May 26th
May 26th
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“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by...”
– Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility.
May 12th
April 2011
10 posts
“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
Apr 29th
“Do I even know if I feel, if I think, if I exist? I know only that there’s...”
– Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Disquiet
Apr 28th
“Live your life. Don’t be lived by it. Right or wrong, happy or sad, be your own...”
– Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Disquiet
Apr 28th
“You read to hear someone express feelings that you thought only you felt....”
– Tan Hwee Hwee, Mammon Inc.
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“When you’re young, you think it’s going to be solved by love. But it...”
– Anonymous.
Apr 5th
March 2011
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“Yuichi was fast asleep on the sofa. From the smile on his face he seemed pleased...”
– Yoshimoto Banana, Kitchen. Trans. Megan Backus.
Mar 15th
February 2011
3 posts
“Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Feb 20th
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Feb 16th
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January 2011
2 posts
“I’m thirty-two years old…which means I’ve been reading for...”
– Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built. (Found in A Book Addict’s Treasury by Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy.)
Jan 7th
“Arrietty’s eyes grew big. ‘Oh, no-’ she began. It shocked her...”
– Mary Norton; The Borrowers.
Jan 2nd
November 2010
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Nov 28th
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“The world’s beauty is in soap bubbles, little specks of dust, galaxy shards,...”
– Ophelia Blooming (via whichdreamedit)
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Nov 24th
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