June 2012
May 2012
“I can see a hundred people a day
who have given up
entirely.” —Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
who have given up
entirely.” —Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
—D.H. Lawrence
Lately I’ve felt like I’ve been spending too much time on the internet and that it’s distracted me from doing a lot of the things I want to and should be doing with my life.
Particularly since I’m in the process of moving/dealing with visa-related paperwork and whatnot, I’ve decided that it would be in my best interests to take a tumblr break for a few weeks (possibly months) until I get everything sorted out.
I’ll be leaving my tumblr on queue and will hopefully be back once I’ve figured out how to balance my life better than I recently have.
Sophia
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
—Paulo Coelho
“Poor boy, there is no hope for you. I have discovered your great wound; this flower in your side is destroying you.”
—Franz Kafka
“What song, what home,
what calm or what clarity
can I not quite come to,
never quite see:
this field, this sky, this tree.” —Christian Wiman, from “Hard Night”
what calm or what clarity
can I not quite come to,
never quite see:
this field, this sky, this tree.” —Christian Wiman, from “Hard Night”
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via reluis)
Unusual Words →
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sylph - a graceful and slender young woman.
euphony - a bearable or agreeable sound.
quixotic - extremely romantic and chivalrous.
pareidolia - a psychological phenomenon, wherein a person has the notion of seeing faces of people in clouds, hearing hidden messages and other such unusual feelings.
phalerate - decorated; made beautiful.
betwixt - between.
crepuscule - twilight; dusk.
epicaricacy - taking pleasure in other’s misfortune; schadenfreud.
nepenthe - something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forget suffering.
exosculate - to kiss fervently or heartily.
lacuna - a blank space or missing part.
euonym - a pleasing or beautiful name.
quarender - a dark red apple.
halcyon - calm and peaceful; tranquil. Prosperous; gold.
ubiquitous - being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.
soigné - showing sophisticated elegance; fashionable. Well-groomed; polished.
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
—E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, trans. Richard Howard
