January 2010
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...
– albert einstein (via dearinheadlights)
December 2009
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worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its...
– j.r.r. tolkien
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real world DC premieres tonight. i don’t watch real world, as a rule, but all summer we were always looking out for where the cast members might be. it was almost like a city-wide treasure hunt, but the treasure was belligerent and reputedly slutty twenty-somethings. i’m looking forward to seeing DC.
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what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...
– ralph waldo emerson
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when something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its...
– enrique jardiel poncela
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sonnet 75
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. “Vayne man,” sayd she, “that doest in vaine assay. A mortall thing so to immortalize, For I my selve shall lyke to this decay, and eek my name bee wyped out lykewize.” “Not so,” quod I, “let baser things devize, To dy in...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...
– e.e. cummings (via mareziee)
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the flea
Marke but this flea, and marke in this, How little that which thou deny’st me is; Me it suck’d first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled bee; Confesse it, this cannot be said A sinne, or shame, or losse of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoyes before it wooe, And pamper’d swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas,...
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