(Source: aconversationoncool)
"Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
"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."
— Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
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"Be fair to me. I may drift awhile."
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“Balance” - Future Islands
the song that is keeping my pulse going these days.
“I hear every goddamn word you say, you know,” she said through the wall.
“I know,” I said.
“Than quit it for Christ’s sake. I can’t hear myself think in here. Besides, the weight of it… it’s not fair. I don’t even know you.”
“But who else is there? Please, I…I need you is all”
“What does it even matter?” she said, “I’ve never said a word. I can’t solve your problems; I won’t tell you what to do. I never meant to be nobody’s nothing.”
“That’s not your choice to make; the best of us are weighed down. Please just keep listening— the creaking of my floorboards is too much to take. And your place… it’s too quiet for your own good. You’re losing yourself, you know.”
“I know, I know, I know,” she whispered, “It shows.”
“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” - Hem
"You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will, gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design, and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful, and pure lifestyle. Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust, and as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
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