March 2010
28 posts
Listen, I may not be much, but I’m all I’ve got. Maybe you need a magnifying...
– Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via distantheartbeats)
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Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you...
– Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always...
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, quoted by Will, who notes that it reminds him of my relationship with food (which he contrasts with his own zen acceptance of the necessity of burritos).
Am I the only one who experiences pangs of fury and despair at the thought...
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent in reconnaissance is never wasted....
– Jasper Fforde (Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron)
This drizzle of ashes
sarahbelfort:
Well, as I was saying, the world is eaten up by boredom. To perceive this needs a little preliminary thought: you can’t see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn’t even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this...
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Only five pages in, but, still.
(via mongermonger)