May 2013
48 posts
Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads.
– Wisława Szymborska, from “Travel Elegy” in View with a Grain of Sand, trans. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh (via proustitute)
Ten William S. Burroughs Quotes About Cats →
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“My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.”
“What went so hideously wrong with the domestic dog? Man molded the domestic dog in his own worst image…self-righteous as a lynch mob, servile and vicious, replete with the vilest coprophagic perversions…and what other animal tries to fuck your leg? Canine claims to our affection reek of contrived and...
I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
via fuckyeahexistentialism * delicateswans (via frenchtwist)
[Terrified] and not of the fear of dying – I have always been reconciled to that...
– Jean-Luc Godard, Le gai savoir (via frenchtwist)
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
– Hafiz (via viage)
April 2013
44 posts
It felt extremely strange not to be able to see my own body with my own eyes,...
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (via frenchtwist)