February 2011
“I broke my life down into letters, for love I pressed ‘5, 6, 8, 3,’ for death, ‘3, 3, 2, 8, 4,’ when the suffering is subtracted from the joy, what remains? What, I wondered, is the sum of my life?”
—Jonathan Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” (via theairtwit)
“There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force – a wild pain and decay – also accompanies everything.”
—David Lynch (via human-voices)
“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959 (via human-voices)
“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.”
—Jack Kerouac (November 1951)
“February dawn — frost
on the path
Where I paced all winter.” —from Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac (via melancholynotes)
on the path
Where I paced all winter.” —from Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac (via melancholynotes)
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“I love you Dominique, as selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I’ve given you not my sacrifice or my pity but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way you can wish to be loved…To say “I love you” one must first know how to say the “I.” …They won’t destroy me, Dominique and they won’t destroy you. You’ll win because you’ve chosen the hardest way of fighting for your freedom from the world. I’ll wait for you and I love you. I’m saying this for all the years we’ll have to wait. I love you Dominique.”
Then he kissed her and let her go.
” —The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 1943 (via richcarriero)
“I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
—Oscar Wilde (via ish07)
“For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies, Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.” —Les Miserables (via timeless2me)
And the sun will rise.” —Les Miserables (via timeless2me)
