February 2012
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“Why does it feel so different at night? Why is it so exciting to be awake when...”
– Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay”
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“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
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“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
– Max Ehrmann, from “Desiderata”
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“Is it wrong to trust a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
– Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
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“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
– Audre Lorde (via thingsandschemes)
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via moldavia)
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“My chakras stay closed.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping. ...”
– David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, “Inside Out,” Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999
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“I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“Love is my insides all messed up.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via girlinlondon)
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“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin [February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977] (via semperaugustus)
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“We all do things we know we shouldn’t—especially when we’re in...”
– Stephanie Nolen, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
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“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit,” Tyler said. ...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“I wanted to burn the Louvre. I’d do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry… I believe poetry is a primal...”
– Stephen Fry, from The Ode Less Travelled (via growing-orbits)
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“When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
– Rumi
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“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
– Denis Diderot
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“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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“Love is anterior to life,
posterior to death,
initial in creation
and the...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“There’s a new cure for lonely travelers at the Chicago railroad station....”
– Marie-Claire, Jan. 1963
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“The afternoon loomed up empty before me. Luckily a theater on my street was...”
– Michèle Bernstein, All the King’s Horses trans. John Kelsey
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“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via clavicola)
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“A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings: 1939-1944 translated by Norah Purcell
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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in...”
– Doris Lessing
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“Hear me children—
and BURN.”
– Sapphire, from: ”Strange Juices”
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The past just got a whole lot more colourful:... →
They say some things are be better off left in the past.
But Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway clearly doesn’t agree with that concept as she has transformed some of the most famous black and white pictures ever captured into high resolution colour versions.
While purists may disagree with the modernisation of such historic pictures such as the celebrations that marked VJ (Victory in Japan)...
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to Canadians: I normally refrain from posting political content (that does not relate to art/writing etc.) but as this pertains to the internet and to our abilities to feel safe accessing the websites we want, I think it is important. If you care about the open internet, whatever your political preference, please sign the petition below. Though the petition is associated with the Liberal party,...
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“We have art in order not to die of life.”
– Albert Camus (via spaceforfantasy)
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