August 2011
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via saddest-summer)
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill / Of things unknown but longed for...
– I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical...
– Allan Ginsberg, “Howl”
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amorist:
We are not unique individuals:
We are merely different combinations
of the same genotypes and phenotypes
“Human body! 48 customizable parts
Get yours today!”
Everything is a copy of a copy of
a copy of a copy of a copy
There is no such thing as originality—
only better marketing
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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here is the deepest secret nobody knows / (here is the root of the root and the...
– i carry your heart with me, EE Cummings
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles...
– Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
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And if you are without fear you are free; it’s fear makes us slaves.
– Katherine Mansfield, August 9th, 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
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thepocketmouse:
“Reading the writing of someone you know in real life —is like a dagger to the ribs, sometimes, an electroshock jumping in your mess of veins back to your heart, a string of barbed wire around your ankles that you don’t notice until you try to get up and trip your skin all over the string; it’s like missing a step down the stairs and getting that split-half-second adrenaline...
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...
– Lemony Snicket (via lunaoki)
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