February 2012
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you’ll escape one...
– John Green
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I hated my younger self with an intensity that frightens me even now. Of course...
– Marya Hornbacher [source]
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Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others,...
– Søren Kierkegaard [source]
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When that slow-motion, silent explosion of love takes place in me, unfolding its...
– Vladimir Naboko [source]
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Precarity is opportunity. Fuck social mobility. Fuck security. Fuck money. Fuck...
– Laurie Penny
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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a...
– Jeanette Winterson [source]
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The more I want to be me, the more I feel an emptiness. The more I express...
– The Coming Insurrection
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases,...
– Haruki Murakami [source]
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A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret,...
– Fernando Pessoa [source]
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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...
– David Foster Wallace [source]
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In art, to reduce is to perfect. Your disappearance bestowed a negative beauty...
– Edouard Levé
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was...
– Rohinton Mistry
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January 2012
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity...
– Cecil Beaton
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We must force this insatiable desire within us, which is always oriented towards...
– Simone Weil
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...
– Franz Kafka [source]
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