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May 2012

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“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” —

Oscar Wilde



Challenge accepted.

(via g-wretch)
May 31, 20124 notes
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
May 31, 201211,664 notes
“Lovers alone wear sunlight” —e e cummings (via pavorst)
May 30, 2012478 notes
“She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.” —Haruki Murakami (via pavorst)
May 29, 2012822 notes
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” —~Ferdinand Foch (via dommy-tsunami)
May 28, 201213 notes
May 28, 201225 notes
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” —Oscar Wilde (via aquaticwonder)
May 28, 2012789 notes
May 27, 201229,607 notes
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.” —Wallace Stevens (via pavorst)
May 27, 2012671 notes
May 27, 20125,797 notes
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” —Ernest Hemingway (via seabois)
May 26, 201225,503 notes
May 25, 2012311 notes
“I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck.” —Henry Rollins (via all-but-gone)
May 25, 20121,503 notes
“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.” —Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island (via larmoyante)
May 24, 20121,028 notes
“So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
—Pablo Neruda (via radanta)
May 22, 20123,620 notes
May 22, 2012196 notes
The Sea of Sorrow: When You Are Old  → the-sea-of-sorrow.tumblr.com

the-sea-of-sorrow:

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man…

May 22, 20125 notes
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” —Carl Sagan, on books (via stateless1972)
May 22, 2012368 notes
“There is ecstasy in paying attention.” —Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (via Risky Wiver)
May 22, 2012176 notes
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald (via unknowneditors)
May 21, 2012948 notes
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