“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Even if I see you again, I will never see you again.”
— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
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“it takes a lot of intelligence to forgive.”
— jcesar13
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“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.”
— Serge Lutens
“You have to have a certain detachment in order to see beauty for yourself rather than something that has been put in quotation marks to be understood as “beauty.” Think about Dutch painting, where sunlight is falling on a basin of water and a woman is standing there in the clothes that she would wear when she wakes up in the morning—that beauty is a casual glimpse of something very ordinary. Or a painting like Rembrandt’s Carcass of Beef, where a simple piece of meat caught his eye because there was something mysterious about it. You also get that in Edward Hopper: Look at the sunlight! or Look at the human being! These are instances of genius. Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. And it’s not Versailles. It’s a brick wall with a ray of sunlight falling on it.”
— Marilynne Robinson (via et–cetera)
“I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.”
“Thank heaven, it is late October,”
— D. H. Lawrence, from Classic Works of D.H. Lawrence; “Democracy,”
“Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.”
— Thornton Wilder (via quotemadness)
“She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, polite, resilient.”
