February 2012
68 posts
The phone rings three times before you pick up, and it’s the same ridiculous, generic, pretentious salutation you’ve used for however many years of your life, it’s enough to make me think of how frustrated I might be had I not be calling you to save my selves from my self, it’s relieving, so, so, relieving, to hear your voice and your stupid greeting, just so that I might...
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visualworkwrittenwork:
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Odi...
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only...”
– Emil Cioran
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“Never more so than Raven”
– Edgar Allen Poe
“Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia”
– José Ortega y Gasset
“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete.
Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry.
(via jtotheizzoe)
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Matisse
“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”
– Emil Cioran
“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it...”
– Gertrude Stein
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“But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s...”
– Khalil Gibran
“I am alone with you in the world. That could be either the most beautiful...”
– Jacques Derrida
