January 2011
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Frederick Woodruff's Wandering Weltanschauung:... →
astroinquiry:
What would be really interesting for people to see is how beautiful things grow out of shit… Nobody ever believes [that it happens that way]. Everybody thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head, that it somehow appeared there and formed in his head, and all he had to do…
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And...
– Louis de Bernières: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (via stoppingtime)
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The city was their stony-hearted mother, and from her breast they had drawn a...
– Thomas Wolfe: You Can’t Go Home Again
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