January 2011
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It's my birthday and I'll... if I want to.
I feel old!
I always feel old when my birthday comes along.
And I’m really not old.
Well. I celebrated the feeling of oldness last night.
Laughed, cried, chuckled, and ate a whole lot.
I blame my best friend for making me cry. But yet again she did make me laugh afterwards. Rollercoaster!
Someone remind me to freshen up my Francais speaking skills, because when I get asked où...
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 2
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral immoral from the scientific point of view.”
“Why?”
“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed....
Main Entry: disappear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vanish; cease
Synonyms: abandon, abscond, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, decamp, dematerialize, depart, die, die out, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, drop out of sight, ebb, end, end gradually, escape, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, flee, fly, go, go south, leave,...
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
– Charles Bukowski
Something I tend to unintentionally do is write down exactly how I feel when a life changing or intense experience happens. Usually in a journal or private space, once on my bedroom wall (which is still there to haunt remind me).
It’s nice looking back, reading what I’d wrote, and thinking how glad I am to not feel that way anymore. Or how much I’d like to feel that way again.
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I’m not quite sure what to make of this.
All I know is everything interlinks.
Nothing happens without a reason.
As I’m quite the random spark; I don’t think I’ll ever figure out how to eat using chopsticks. They’re the bane of my life in every sushi based / Thai / Japanese restaurant I’ve been to.
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You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we’ll make something But me myself I got nothing to prove You got a fast car And I got a plan to get us out of here I been working at the convenience store Managed to save just a little bit of money We won’t...
Luca Farinelli →
An amazing photographer, as well as a genuine and down to Earth guy. Definitely check his photoblog out.
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Walking
through the motions
of what once was
and what should be.
Realisation.
Nothing is everything and everything
could
be
nothing. Motionless.
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This is why English majors have difficult love lives. You say I love you? Well,...
– rara avis: so this afternoon i sprinted from commons to my english class. (via baseln) (via girlperson)
“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her “I love you madly”, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows...