December 2011
149 posts
November 2011
164 posts
“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no...”
– Simon Van Booy
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“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at...”
– Simon van Booy, ‘The Still but Falling World’ in The Secret Lives of People in Love (via thenovembersnow)
“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...”
– Pablo Neruda (via thenocturnals)
Lunch: Roasted Tomato Basil Soup + Fontina &...
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“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin (via thenocturnals)
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“He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful — then of a sudden he...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned. (via madeofglass-)
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Saudade.
Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one loves and which is apart. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.
Saudade has been described as a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist … a turning towards the past or towards the future”.
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“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (via lethifold)
