May 2013
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via liquidnight) It’s strange how I am still instinctively reluctant to admit this is true of me; but it is, it is. Thank you, my beloved.
May 12th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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“A sense of my own unworthiness and coming fall. God give me strength to fall...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“the surf sounded like a freight train passing in the distance of a hot farmland...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“Though the daily round may express us best, occasions enoble, and if we are...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“You imagine that you know yourself in a way that I don’t know myself, and...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“He knew that in his state of mind only sleep could help him. Sleep! Where was...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“I looked forward to seeing you. It wasn’t your fault. It isn’t your...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“the split between my sensual life and my fantasy of a religious life is like a...”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“To plan to act is to think of an alternative action.”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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“an intensity of laughter threw open the gates of her face like a water lily”
– From The Home Book, by James Schuyler
May 5th
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April 2013
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“Time and time again, when questioned or interviewed, one is asked about one’s...”
– Theodor Adorno, “Free Time” from The Culture Industry (1991; pp. 188-189) Beautiful. Tiring.
Apr 27th
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LOVE WON'T SAVE US: from Sans Soleil, directed by... →
ahuntersheart: from Sans Soleil, directed by Chris Marker: -The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness, and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me, “One day… Fantastic quotes from one of my very favourite films.
Apr 27th
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http://jacket2.org/article/past-past →
A fascinating guide to that various field. I’ve been waiting for Nathan Kernan to produce his biography of Schuyler for years!
Apr 5th
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March 2013
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“One shoud be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself....”
– Kierkegaard, Either/ Or
Mar 17th
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July 2012
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous -...”
– Thomas Mann (via quotesbitches)
Jul 31st
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“… for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” trans. Stephen Mitchell (via proustitute) A great moment of this year was coming upon the torso in the Louvre, and recognising it instantly just from many readings of the poem as the one Rilke was writing about - and then meeting an American...
Jul 31st
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“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via quotesbitches)
Jul 31st
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“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy....”
– Brad Meltzer (via booksandnerds)
Jul 31st
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somekindofnothingness: “There’s something wrong with that boy; he frowns for no good reason” William Burroughs discussing Kurt Cobain
Jul 31st
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“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for...”
– Peter Shaffer (via quotesbitches)
Jul 31st
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“One day, a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or...”
– J.D. Salinger (via 500daysofkissingmypillow) I have spent much of the past year (more than a year) trying to work out what I want to do with the rest of career. I am sure Salinger is right. Frustratingly, I am still a long way off achieving what he recommends. This and the next few quotes are ones...
Jul 31st
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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WatchWatch
We found this wild orchid today, and stood watching it for a while. This sixteen-second film is an homage to Patrick Keiller, whose Robinson in Ruins (which we watched and enjoyed last night) includes a number of long shots of wild flowers shifting in a summer breeze. Birdsong should also be faintly audible on this.
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a...”
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) Vol II: Within a Budding Grove, Ch. IV: “Seascape, with a Frieze of Girls”
Jul 14th
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“The idea of liberation through the suppression of desire is the greatest...”
– E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
Jul 6th
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“But the whole question of ‘purpose’ is a pseudo-question since both the...”
– Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher (1899-1990)
Jul 6th
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“Time and memory merge into each other; they are like the two sides of a medal.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Jul 6th
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Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
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June 2012
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“If I were called in/ To construct a religion/ I should make use of water.”
– Philip Larkin, Water
Jun 30th
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