February 2012
143 posts
“[We fall silent in midsentence,
all smiles, past help.]
Our humans
don’t know...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “An Unexpected Meeting” (translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde
expectations: I'm just going to take a quick power nap and I'll wake up refreshed and energized
reality: passed out cold for five hours solid, wake up not knowing what day it is or what the last meal you ate was
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if...”
– Kevin Brockmeier
“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I...”
– Stephan Grellet
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the...”
– Marcel Proust
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
“To be understood is to prostitute yourself.”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Te olvidaré muy pronto, es necesario, sabes. Yo también te diré hasta
luego...”
– Julio Cortázar
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what...”
– Markus Zusak
“[The applause continues. I look up at Tiny Cooper.]
He may be heavy, but right...”
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
