July 2010
37 posts
“well, as we have no conversation, i have no option but to ask you for the next...”
– Ms. Pettigrew lives for a day
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“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
– Jack Kerouac
“Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold...”
– Baz Lurhmann (via purplesandpiper)
they’ll remind you of how you where
“the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis,...”
– Dante
neutral
“Perhaps I look to books to protect me from life’s ultimate highs and lows; maybe...”
– Andi Diehn (via jingc)
me too
French Words With No English Translation →
jesuisperdu:
(via mattressesunderwater, thrillsandfrills)
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur: As...
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Europe may no longer be a global power, or have much military muscle. Its churches may be empty, its spiritual fiber weak. It may not boast much cutting edge innovation or economic growth. But it knows how to look after its elderly, take a long lunch break and abandon the office in August. The cold realisation that time is up, and that such progress is over, prompts anger, denial and shock. in The...
“nothing should ever hold a man back from his future”
– the other end of the line
“but future generations made Camoes great. And so Jose Saramago hoped against...”
– in The Economist
“the idea that there are roads in the sky”
– ballet shoes
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“why do people do that? just coast along?”
– the rebound
sometimes i do wonder
“what would u rather have? Peace or Freedom?”
– Supernatural
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why we should just go live on an island
“capitalist economies can only survive if they grow and that requires people to be dissatisfied because only people desperate for material betterment will buy that flashier car or that smarter jacket…the trick is to make people as unhappy about themselves as possible so that they strive to spend the cash in the false hope that it will make then happy and sexy.the last thing we want is...
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“the world has enough to cater for everyone’s need, but not...”
– Mahatma Ghandi
we don’t even realize how much we abuse it
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
– Nietzsche
all the time, until we aren’t aware how strong we’ve become, only noticing when we hurt others by our brutality
“She struggled with life as we all do, and she lost”
– Wolfman
the lies we believe to sleep at night
“Could you take away his soul?”
– New Moon 