February 2012
“People Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones”
“Tell someone that you’ve got a drink problem, or an eating disorder, or your dad...”
– David Nicholls, Starter for Ten (via vashti)
“The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as “ilunga”...”
– BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo word ‘most untranslatable’ (via rhea137)
“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and...”
– Irving Layton
“The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way...”
– Werner Heisenberg
(via rememo)
“I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they...”
– Ellen Hopkins (via nuaira)
“On Sundays Kafka goes for walks by himself, without any objective, without...”
– from a note by Max Brod, early 1911 (via honeychurch)
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Brief Interlude
Some people choose to lose their frickin’ minds in the worst possible moments…
“Our enemies are - not the Germans, and - not Russians or Frenchmen. The common...”
– Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov, “Wake up, all people are brothers!” (28 September 1914)
“Isolate city spread alongside water,
Posted with white towers, she keeps her...”
–
Philip Larkin
“Everything’s alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we’re here...”
– Jack Kerouac (via fernsandmoss)
Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson
In this poem, disaster strangely invades the ordinary.
A man standing at the bus stop reading the newspaper is on fire Flames are peeking out from beneath his collar and cuffs His shoes have begun to melt
The woman next to him wants to mention it to him that he is burning but she is drowning Water is everywhere in her mouth and ears in her eyes A stream of water runs steadily from...
“It is a great satisfaction to find that your oldest convictions are permanent....”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Balagan” - In Russian, it means “traveling circus, light tent for traveling show” or “temporary light building for trade at a fair”.
- In Hebrew, “balagan” means “chaos”. (loan word).
“It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and...”
– Sydney Smith
“Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The Japanese don’t...”
– Noël Peirce Coward, Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)
“Although Apollo was the god of music, yet Mercury is said to have invented his...”
–
The Family magazine, or, Weekly abstract of general knowledge, Tom 1
J.S. Redfield, 1843
(via rhea137)
“Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of...”
– Kenneth Rexroth
“After another moment’s silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that...”
– Albert Camus
“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace...”
– Thomas Hardy
Dragobete
Dragobete is a traditional Romanian holiday originating from Dacian times and celebrated on February, the 24th. Specifically, Dragobete was the son of Baba Dochia, which stands for the main character in the pagan myth related to spring arrival and the end of the harsh winter.
The day is particularly known as “the day when the birds are betrothed”. It is around this time that the...
“It’s like going around a mirrorless world asking everyone you meet to describe...”
– Diane Arbus (via dialogues)
“I loved you grammatically correct.”
– Simona Catrina
Nickole Brown, from "How To Forgive"
airwalker:
make room without throwing a single thing out
to clutter the world. you are not mercury for the mouths of fish,
not a plume of smoke to lift hollow bones. do not throw it
like a bottle from an overpass onto a speeding car, do not wait
for it to seed as you wait tentacled in sleeping beauty’s hair.
listen...
“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”
– Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (via airwalker)
“There is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a...”
– Aerial Circus
(via leprintemps)
“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream....”
– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now. (via hate-wizard)
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
– Gore Vidal
“Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither … can history be brought...”
– Václav Havel
“No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human...”
–
Milan Kundera
“The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.”
– Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust
“i grew up watching your hands arrange space, so i find it very natural that when...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via beryl-azure)
“The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in...”
– Xun Zi
“The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his...”
– Theophrastus
“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who...”
– Emile M. Cioran
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to...”
– Sydney J. Harris
“He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
(via liquidnight)
“Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love...”
–
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need...”
–
Fran Lebowitz