May 2011
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)
“Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.”
—Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love (via distantheartbeats)
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
—George Eliot (via girlwithoutwings)
Vladimir Nabokov
“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people’s behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”
—Ingmar Bergman (via misswallflower)
Arcade Fire - Speaking in Tongues (feat. David Byrne)
Speaking In Tongues - Arcade Fire
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.”
—Beatrix Potter (via bookoasis)
