January 2012
“It is a restless moment.
She has kept her head lowered,
to give him a chance...”
– In the Mood for Love
“to plot those places
where i last remember you
time and time again”
– failure of romance #2 (google maps street view) | consumptive.org
followyourbliss:
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter to his eldest son
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second...
“My people are truly, peace-loving people.”
– Director of A Separation, Golden Globes winner (via seaofgreen)
Watchfyeahiran:
the9th:
How Iranians listen to electro music.
LMAO
“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them.”
– Haruki Murakami | The Art of Fiction No. 182 [The Paris Review] (via jamesnoor)
claerwen:
Kismet is a word derived from Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, meaning Fate or Destiny, a predetermined course of events. The word evolved from Persian قسمت (qesmat) meaning “lot,” from qasama, “to divide, allot.”
The first recorded use of the word in English was by Edward Backhouse Eastwick who used the word, spelled “kismat”, in his 1849 novel Dry Leaves from Young Egypt.
This is possibly...
young and alive: Milan Kundera. →
megalothymia:
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You’d dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And…
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap… it...”
– Henry Miller “Tropic of Cancer” (via takesamuscle)
