February 2012
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full....”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them...”
– Marilynne Robinson
“The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such...”
–
Charles de Montesquieu
“People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
–
Charles de Montesquieu
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via liquidnight)
“Our lives are quiet. We like to be disturbed by delight.”
– Sophia Grojsman
“I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters, 1940-1977
“I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”
– Henry Rollins
“Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to...”
– James Collins
“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow...”
– Paul Auster (via liquidnight)
“I never wrote for an audience and never will write for one, because you have to...”
– Henryk Gorecki
“To go inside yourself and to encounter no one for hours—this you will have to be...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. Mark Harman (via proustitute)
