May 2012
34 posts
deermoon:
And they say young people don’t learn anything in high school nowadays, but I’ve learned to be afraid.
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via deermoon)
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.”
– Irish Proverb
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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it...”
– Catherine Breillat
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“But the heart has its own memory..”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and...”
– Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire (via deermoon)
Sleepwalking will be my demise.
Last night, I was practicing self-control and did not eat a chocolate muffin after dinner. Well, to my surprise, I woke up to a half eaten chocolate muffin next to me in bed.
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being...”
– Truman Capote, Summer crossing
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Fear is not a sin, but cowardice is.”
– John Vaillant, The Tiger (via cocknbull)
“I wasn’t lonely.
I experienced no self-pity.
I was just caught up in a
life...”
– Charles Bukowski (via feille)
“Your letters got sadder. Your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers...”
– Charles Bukowski (via freins)
April 2012
35 posts
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Anarquía y cerveza fría: Monet's ultraviolet... →
jkottke:
In a review of the Color Uncovered iPad app, Carl Zimmer highlights something I hadn’t heard before: Claude Monet could see in ultraviolet.
Late in his life, Claude Monet developed cataracts. As his lenses degraded, they blocked parts of the visible spectrum, and the colors…
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booksvscigarettes:
Lilac Wine - Nina Simone
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“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
– Claude Monet (via deermoon)