September 2011
8 tags
“It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain...”
– Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin (via peregrinespirit)
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers...”
– Sonja (Love and Death)
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“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via estincelle)
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“Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it’s seductive when it...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via estincelle)
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“It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re...”
– Henry Miller (via whenwetalkaboutlove)
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“I’m completely empty. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being...”
– Haruki Murakami (via modernmethadone)
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via thequotecollector)
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“I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now...”
– Margaret Atwood (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try...”
– Louise L. Hay (via dr-clear-heels)
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“I’m not a complete attention whore in that I want us to have constant...”
– Mikael Åkerfeldt (via beneath-the-mire)
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“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am,...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via remapmysoul)
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“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without...”
– Charles Bukowski (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via brainshit)
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“You’re a product of our language and our laws and how our laws are and how we...”
– Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realize that we’re all going...”
– Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one...”
– Jean Paul Sartre (via estincelle)
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen.”
– East Of Eden. (via vinylandvodka)
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“And those were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. (via caramelmemories)
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via dearscience)
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I...”
– Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (via milkwoods)
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“I hate and I love. Why? You might ask.
I don’t know. But I feel it happening...”
– Catullus, fragment 85, translated by Anne Carson (via senseofchampagnechic)
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“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
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“I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if...”
– Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the...”
– Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the...”
– charles bukowski (via blessedcoast)
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“There’s all different kinds of loneliness. There’s the tragic loneliness that...”
– The silence- Haruki Murakami (via 3eleanor)
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You know those lonely nights spent before a dim flickering screen in a dark room, completely isolated. Desperate to talk to someone, anyone; to know why unhappiness persists so, to know every rough crevice of the texture of fate leading up to this very moment, so that maybe there could be an excuse to say when confronted with the primordial void that emerges in the dead at night, stares you in the...
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“I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease—a genuine,...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via estincelle)
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“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via nevver)
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“I think you’re the only person who gets me. When I’m with you, the world doesn’t...”
– Jodi Picoult (via estincelle)
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“Nothing stays put. The world is a wheel.
All that we know, that we’re
made of,...”
– Amy Clampitt, from “Nothing Stays Put” (via proustitute)
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“This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate...”
– Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
“But I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be...”
– Olivia Wilde (via arabellarose)
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“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This...”
– Henry Rollins (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anais Nin (via thechocolatebrigade) 