February 2012
84 posts
And Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes.: Napolean Bonaparte... →
talkativolive:
“I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil. Sweet, incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart! Are you angry? Do I see you looking sad? Are you worried?… My soul aches with sorrow,…
theycallmebig:
“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade.” - A single man
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via 4mbivalent)
And Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes.: I Sing The Body... →
talkativolive:
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“I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal…
“Life is rarely about what happened; it’s mostly about what we think happened.”
– Chuck Klosterman (via amandaonwriting)
“It’s not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It’s just that … I just...”
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever (via amandaonwriting)
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via amandaonwriting)
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“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that...”
– A Letter from Leo Tolstoy, to his fiancé Valeria Arsenev (via talkativolive)
“But one must ask oneself after all: when we love someone, or perhaps better...”
– The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson (via pngnlvr)
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
– Edvard Munch (via satansfilmnoir)
“The light gradually forsook the deep water, as well as the deeper air, and the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thedailyvictorian)
“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bewitchingbritain)
Nothing is Real: Desiderata →
strawberryfieldsfornow:
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and…
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talkativolive:
I woke up too early, the sky was red and the clouds were stringy, like your eyes. Have a great day, feel better, be happy, count your body parts and learn again how lucky lucky lucky it is to be here. You can say you don’t believe in luck, but you aren’t always in control.
Love those little moments when you feel life running through your veins.
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be...”
– William Shakespeare (via talkativolive)
“She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via talkativolive)
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“What is the meaning of life?… a simple question; one that tended to close...”
– ‘To the Lighthouse’ - Virginia Woolf
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, somebody like the kind, courageous people...”
– Matilda (via heartspokesperson)