June 2013
17 posts
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
—
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via completelyunproductive)
I adore this book
(via anenlighteningellipses)
May 2013
14 posts
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
—Aristotle (via artspeakslouderthanwords)
“Why is what is easy so difficult?”
—Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 15 August 19231 (via violentwavesofemotion)
April 2013
15 posts
“It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
— Albert Camus (via human-voices)
“You burn
me.” —Sappho, from Fragments of Sappho: If Not Winter (translated by Anne Carson)
me.” —Sappho, from Fragments of Sappho: If Not Winter (translated by Anne Carson)
March 2013
55 posts
“She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.”
—
Tom Waits
(via talisman)
