February 2012
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curiouswonderland-:
Many people wrote to Lewis Carroll asking him the answer to The Hatter’s riddle: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” however it was originally invented to have no answer at all.
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“Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills...”
– Sartre, The Humanism of Existentialism (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
– Albert Camus, “An Absurd Reasoning” From The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (via liquidnight)
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mitford:
Valentine vow: I will lose this leech of longing.
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
– Albert Camus (via hana-ginkawa)
“I told her how until that moment I had not understood that this story was a...”
– The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (via clavicola)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's list of things to worry... →
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human...”
– Marcel Proust, Regrets, Reveries The Color of Time (via wingsforlashes)
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of...”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via philphys)
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I’ve been at home ill for the last 3 days and I know that I need to get out and return to the world because I’m feeling desperately anxious and flighty and as though I’m wasting my opportunities (I have such a fear of being negatively judged).
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via boneslace)
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“Rochester’s a classic Byronic hero. The shady past, the intelligence, the...”
– Michael Fassbender (via epiclullaby)
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boneslace:
knockturn:
I feel like I’m a different species from everyone else. Like everyone is made of skin and bones while I’m made of paper.
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