December 2011
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We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine....
– — Leo Tolstoy, on the rise of cinema
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forestofclouds:
we are trains of fire for a brief, beautiful moment we collided
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And love is like putting your naked arm into a pond and letting it float with...
– — Bertolt Brecht, Baal (1918)
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction, the weight, the weight we carry is love.
— from Song by Allen Ginsberg
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...
– — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to...
– — Sebastiano Pérouse de Montclos
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What can I say, I’m a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten...
– Mark Z. Danielewski — House of Leaves
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For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of...
– — T. S. Eliot, from The Four Quartets proustitute
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking...
– — Václav Havel
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“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the...
– — Friedrich Nietzsche
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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people...
– — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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