it is such a secret place, the land of tears.

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Oscar Wilde

"I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."

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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction—every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour."

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Sylvia Plath

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"Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn’t give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind."

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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend."

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Wendell Berry

"There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."

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Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett (via lotus-eyes)

"That’s another thing that America really needs to think about is our racism, racism that comes from the United States towards the Muslim people and towards Arabic people and that’s something that has to stop and the United States has to start respecting people from the Middle East in order to find a solution to the problems that have been building up over many years, so I thank everyone for your patience, and letting me speak my mind."

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Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, MTV Music Video Awards 1998 (via lotus-eyes)

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"Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover."

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Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (via fleurishes)

"You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only."

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Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

(Source: bookmania, via ryangardner)

"Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep."

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Catherine O’Hara

"Your head is a living forest full of song birds."

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e.e. cummings

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"One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence."

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Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever (via skeletales)

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"Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon."

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Joseph Conrad (via flentes)

"In African and other oval cultures… stories and histories were shared communally between performers and their audiences, giving rise to version after version, each new version surpassing the last as it incorporated the contributions and feedback of the audience, each new version layered with new details and twists as it was infected through the collective. This was never thought of as copying or stealing or intellectual-property theft but accepted as the natural way in which cultures evolves and develops and moves forward. As each new layer of interpretation was painted onto the story or song, it was enriched rather than depleted by those layers."

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Candice Breitz

"she stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away"

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She, Saul Williams (via floralnymph)

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