May 2013
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April 2013
2 posts
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you...
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
If other planets switched places with the Moon,...
did-you-kno:
This is the Moon.
But imagine for a second that the Moon switched places with other planets. This is what you would see (subject to staying alive, of course):
Mars:
Venus:
Uranus:
Neptune:
Saturn:
Jupiter:
February 2013
1 post
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a...
– Ernest Hemingway on Fitzgerald
January 2013
1 post
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
December 2012
5 posts
It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in...
– Jack Kerouac (via skin-ship)
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it...
– Catherine Breillat (via skin-ship)
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November 2012
3 posts
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived...
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green (via skin-ship)
She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Like many brilliant men he had grown up dead cold. Beginning at about twelve...
– The Love of the Last Tycoon
October 2012
2 posts
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He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
I know better, but I have never been so fearful of the future
September 2012
2 posts
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Verbal Reasoning on the MCAT is the bane of my existence.
August 2012
5 posts
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And the first rude sketch that the world has seen was joy to his mighty heart,...
– Rudyard Kipling
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“He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret”
-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
July 2012
3 posts
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Ethereal:
Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world
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Have you ever longed for a past you’ve never experienced?
We were blessed to have short memories
– Naveen Reddy
June 2012
3 posts
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 2012
2 posts
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
April 2012
2 posts
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Once on a yellow peice of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
and he called...
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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March 2012
9 posts
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I always loved sorrow and tribulation, but
only for myself, for myself; but I...
– The Dream Of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Dostoevsky
I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and...
I believe things I don’t want to, and I believe things that are wrong, or at least I hope are wrong. But I have to believe them until the world shows me how wrong I really am.
Its been to too long, I’ve missed this feeling
February 2012
10 posts
Under the spreading chestnut tree. I sold you and you sold me
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But if the object was not to stay alive but stay human, what difference did it...
– Gorge Orwell
Nostalgia
I like how this word sounds
Simple and happy was all I meant to give you
Sean: Do you have a soul mate?
Will: Define that.
Sean: Someone you can relate...
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
– F. Scott Fitzgerald