“There was a young man who said, ‘damn!’ / For it seems that I certainly am / a creature that moves / in determinate grooves: / I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.” - Alan Watts on Western Mythology in Myths, Dreams, and Religion (Taken with instagram)
Oh my darling.. @theoldprince and I enjoying some new year eats. (Taken with Instagram at Takumi Japanese Restaurant)
Sense will always have attractions for me.
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Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (via bookmania)
Verdad. |
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
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| — | Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves) |
I couldn’t have spoken like this yesterday, because when we’ve been apart, and I’m looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you’re so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.
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Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
It’s true, querido amado. |
..The poet, the artist, the sleuth—
whoever sharpens our perception tends to be anti-social; rarely ‘well-adjusted,’ he cannot go along with currents and trends…
whoever sharpens our perception tends to be anti-social; rarely ‘well-adjusted,’ he cannot go along with currents and trends…
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| — | “The Medium is the Massage” 1967, Random House |
