November 2011
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“I thought, an average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which...”
– The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via thepaisleyelf)
October 2011
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“Do you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background?...”
– Lucas Scott (via venebelle)
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett (via atomos)
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The Birth of Feeling
“Feelings are not as old as time. Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time joy was felt, and a first time for sadness. For a while, new feelings were being invented all the time. Desire was born early, as was regret. When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of...
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The Death of Isaac Bebel
Only after they charged him with the crime of silence did [Issac] Babel discover how many kinds of silences existed. When he heard music he no longer listened to the notes, but the silences in between. When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital letter of the next sentence. He discovered the places in a room...
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– Nicole Krauss The History of Love
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“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering...”
– Nicole Krauss- The History of Love
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