They felt they were standing on a snow-covered plain, shivering with cold. Then they moved together like lovers who had never kissed before.

~   The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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10.30.11 /12:24/♥ 3

And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

~   The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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10.21.11 /22:20/♥ 9

Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects, begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

~   Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
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10.21.11 /22:13/♥ 11

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

~   F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10.19.11 /13:52/♥ 13

I don’t want him to be happy. I want him to miss me. That is not really love; I suppose I understand that. But perhaps it is like a small girl who for one baffled and uncharmed instant realizes her rigid plastic doll is not a real baby—before she resumes her pretending again.

~   Lorrie Moore
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10.19.11 /01:18/♥ 9

Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,
Worlds.
Izumi Shikibu

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10.19.11 /01:16/♥ 14
10.08.11 /17:22
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10.08.11 /15:43
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Mental illness is rising. Serial killers, shattered souls, senseless violence. You can’t sedate them with game shows and shopping. The antidepressants won’t work forever either. The people have had enough of your shit system.

~   The Edukators
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04.22.11 /21:16/♥ 1

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

~   Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)
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04.22.11 /20:22/♥ 3065
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