December 2010
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I don’t need money, or, better, it’s not money that I need; it’s not even power;...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent (via ryannapier)
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We are so divorced from it [life] that we feel at once a sort of loathing for...
– Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via nymphora)
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If the sight of the blue skies
fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass...
– Eleonora Duse (via agoodthinghappened)
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What makes the desert beautiful … is that somewhere it hides a well.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via nathanielstuart)
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You know you’ll end up like the rest
bitter and twisted unless
you stay strong...
– Yann Tiersen, Le jours tristes (via clairefisher)
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I went out into the gentle rain & saw the rainbow. It deepens, it shone down...
– Katherine Mansfield (via katherine-mansfield)
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Reading great books and reading them well is what is important. Meditative...
– John Piper, on the sanctifying power of books (via Desiring God)
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his...
– James Oppenheim (via quote-book)
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coccorosa asked:Was just looking through your blog and saw you comment about finding an english version of harry potter. Because im in Australia that is all I see. I always see pictures of the other countries versions, like in the photo I saw your comment on. —- I am not sure which version the photo is from. The cover of the original book I could find was this:...
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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental...
– Stephane Mallarme
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...
– George Sand (via kari-shma)
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I...
– Louisa May Alcott
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We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus!
– Gladiator (via vmel)
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herlagnolalia asked: Have you read Novel Of Cocaine/Cocaine Romance? If so, what did you think of it? The relationship between Vadim and his mother some what reminds me of my relationship with my mum, strangely…
—- No I haven’t read it. Did you like it?
maelie asked: I would actually like to commend you on posting the quote about Stephenie Meyer and...
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Ladies & gentlemen… we are floating in space!
– Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World (via quote-book)