December 2011
117 posts
Favourite foreign and largely overused...
Foda-se
Attraversiamo
Cosi cosi
La vida loca
Saudade
Meu amor
Fuerte
L’amoureuse
Je m’en fous.
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I have so much to do but no time to do it. That’s a lie of course. There’s plenty of time. It’s just a matter of prioritising. Prioritising. I have no effort left to prioritise. It’s also raining outside. This can only mean staring at the window thinking of all the things I still have to do.
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck
“Não queiras, Lídia, edificar no ‘spaço
Que figuras futuro, ou prometer-te...”
– Fernando Pessoa
Disparu
Celui qui a disparu, qui n’apparaîtra plus jamais, celui-là dont l’existence est devenue cela même, ce fait qui n’en est plus un, ce factum negativum : de ne paraître plus au monde, de ne nous apparaître plus — celui-là, chaque disparu, ou celle-là, chaque disparue, ne cesse plus d’apparaître en tant que tel, en tant que ce perpétuel disparaissant dont l’image revient, d’autant plus...
wiamallabout asked: You're lovely!
charquaouia:
I have my beef with the term “Arab Spring” but “Arab Awakening” is so so so much worse.
Just because you decided to wake up and start paying attention to the region, doesn’t mean the whole region was sleeping too. Opposition movements have always existed in one form or another throughout the region, albeit marginalized and often driven underground, BUT THEY EXISTED. There wasn’t a...
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Solitude amidst a crowd
Thinking in one language then speaking in another breathing the shared air of the universe feeling what was never felt in the way it could have been time has shattered the glass firmly placed on my aching shoulder contemplate, contemplate, contemplate.
True goodbyes are the ones never said or explained.
Charity:Water →
It’s hard not to think about water today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our stewardship of the world’s most precious resource. There’s talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs and aquifers drying up, and of course, plenty of people who simply don’t care. But forget about us. Most of us have never really...
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“People run from rain
but sit in bathtubs
full of
water.”
– Charles Bukowski
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