February 2012
113 posts
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“Vedo un uomo che non è un uomo e un bambino che non è un bambino. Vedo un uomo...”
– David Grossman, Che tu sia per me il coltello (via saneinsane)
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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Insane Lullaby...
“I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via galakospeculoos)
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise (via vineetkaur)
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Mazzy Star, Fade Into You (via thedeity)
Because I don't know if the wit was intended or...
Interviewer: What is one thing you miss most about your childhood?
Gottfried Helnwein: Nothing, actually.
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“Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air...”
– Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice (luminousinsect)
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via nocternity)
“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via nocternity)
“Collages give you the pleasure of cutting up human beings - individuals and...”
– Guido Ceronetti, The Silence of the Body
“Des chauves-souris au moiré blanc brillant glissaient le long d’une haute...”
– A. S. Byatt, “Le Livre des enfants” (via Le Monde)
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“Se tu ci pensi, si scrive infatti perché si è tristi, perché tutto questo – la...”
– A. M. Ortese, Intervista (1977)
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“This mess of psyche is what puer [soul] consciousness needs to marry so as to...”
– Salt of Soul, Sulfur of Spirit
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Exactly.
Interviewer: “If Transcendental Meditation creates positiveness… some people might ask: what about all the darkness that’s in the films?” David Lynch: “Exactly.”
“When rhythm has become the sole and unique mode of thought’s expression, it is...”
– Hölderlin in conversation with Sinclair, 1804
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“Francine si girò verso di lui, che la circondò con un braccio. Gli ubriachi...”
– Charles Bukowski, Musica per organi caldi (via zanoski)
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Big Star, Nightime (via Magnificent Ruin)
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“Cutting shade, cool spades and little last beds, make violet, violet when.”
– Gertrude Stein (via neverneverland)
“When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking, talking...”
– John Cage
“Verwechseln Sie bitte nicht das Einfache mit dem Simplen.”
– Mies van der Rohe
“… It was unusual and powerful. It was clear that he was putting people in some...”
– Isabelle Huppert on Juergen Teller
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Zielschmerz
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency (via dictionary of obscure sorrows)
“Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for...”
– William Butler Yeats, excerpt from “No Second Troy”
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Death Cab For Cutie, We Looked Like Giants
“She sat perfectly still, listening and looking always at the same spot. It...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via funeral)
“If I wasn’t as tough as I am I would be a oozing wound. You know, I’m too...”
– Lydia Lunch (via vashti)
