August 2011
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Aug 1st
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Anonymous asked: lalalala lalalala
how are you todayy
love, matt
im not logged in thats why im anon hehe
Aug 1st
“She says that it is as if they are both held together in a book and that when...”
– Marguerite Duras, Les Yeux bleus, cheveux noirs, translated by proustitute (via proustitute)
Aug 1st
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July 2011
85 posts
Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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“… shadow seeks shadow, then both leaf and leaf-shadow are lost.”
– H. D., from “Evening” (via proustitute)
Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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“Well, I am holding in the palm of my thoughts all the others who once were...”
– Billy Collins, from “Forsythia” (via proustitute)
Jul 24th
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 23rd
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“I’m in no hurry. There’s no need To wake you or disturb you with telegrams or...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky, from his suicide note, trans. Erik Korn (via proustitute)
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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“Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those...”
– Thom Yorke (via thoughtyouspoke)
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...”
– Oscar Wilde (via chloesthinking)
Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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“Next after stripping myself naked, possessing nothing, not the smallest thing in...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, from his journals. As cited in Geoffrey Hill, “R.S. Thomas’s Welsh Pastoral,” in Echoes to the Amen, edited by Damian Walford Davies (via itgivesitthew)
Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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“When, on a summer evening, the resounding sky growls like a tawny lion, and...”
– Marcel Proust (via proustitute; part of Proust’s birthday)
Jul 18th
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Something I hate
I hate how people have come to think that pretension is a good thing. It’s not. It’s an unattractive quality. I feel like many people have forgotten what the word actually means. To be pretentious is to “behave or speak in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth.” Pretension is UNDUE ASSUMPTION OF EXCELLENCE. UNDUE. To be pretentious,...
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 15th
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“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books...”
– E.M. Forster (via atomos)
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“in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting...”
– e. e. cummings (via proustitute)
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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