October 2010
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wtf you should do with your life →
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This most ancient of sufferings
For years I have kept this one poem in the room closest to my heart. A sacred text.
The First Elegy
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed...
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Our Sorry Bones
La Fille: Surely if we've learnt anything throughout all our years of feeling life, we've learnt that in one way or another, you have to be prepared. You have to brace yourself. Because people like us, the blows don't just roll over us, we absorb each punch that life throws at us. We absorb each punch, and the tremors of the hit resonate through our sorry bones, and we're either better or worse from it.
I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me
– The Mountain Goats
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Sleeping Potion
1 cup milk 1/2 tbsp sugar 3/4 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp butter Sprinkling of nutmeg
heat for 1.5 minutes stir 21 times clockwise
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Here she gives us her tragic vision pure. It is a high-wire performance, only...
– Hearts Full of Sorrow, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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warm warm water
I took a long bath before bed. I thought about mortality, love, my friend, mashed potatoes, beauty, and the end of everything. How lovely it would be to think a little less. With eyes closed I told myself (twice to be more convincing), “the world is a big, big place with a lot of things to do. All you have to do is choose.” I don’t really believe in the simplicity of this...
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Owl in the Dark →
you are my new favorite person
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity
– Edvard Munch
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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