August 2010
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
– Edgar Allen Poe (via psychodelic) (via benjiecat) (via apathie) (via tiger-circus)
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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
– Winston Churchill
July 2010
27 posts
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“When someone calls another person ugly, all I see is the person that’s saying it...”
– Dita von Teese (via sleepydumpling) (via pluseyes) (via seaponies) (via tobia) (via nnnoir)
Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
– Kurt Cobain (via quote-book)
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“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
