March 2013
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hannalew: vincent van gogh →
hannalew:
Last night as I was busing to Zoe’s I saw this man sitting a few seats away from me. He had red curly hair, broken glasses and a lovely little closely-trimmed beard. Looked like an art student, paint in the crooks of his fingernails and scribbling notes down in his sketchbook. He could not have…
January 2012
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
– André Breton (via implicitshine)
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“Often times, you have to let people go. Everyone...
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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Christopher McCandless (via seweenie)
My love story
She says, I wanted to apologize for how things went.
This I was not expecting. Anything but this. After a life of being used and abused by almost every man in her life i never expected her to show compassion for the hurt caused to others. The compassionate side quickly wins out and the stoic takes over. The pirate flag is lowered.
Don’t. There is no need. These things happen. This is...
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Whiskey, warms the belly and cools the heart.
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What's your story?
We all have stories of love. Both good and bad. The first crush on a friend or schoolmate, the first kiss, first rejection, the last lover and the current. I want to hear your stories, I want you to share them with me and the world. Let’s remind everyone we are not alone.
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August 2011
6 posts
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“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the...”
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”
– Johann Wolgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
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“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
“If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt...”
– Anton Chekhov
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“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more...”
– Anton Chekhov, After the Theatre
“You make the mistake of thinking that you have to choose, that you have to do...”
– Mersault, A Happy Death by Albert Camus, 1971 (via crappymoosee)
July 2011
8 posts
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotion of people whom one has...”
– Oscar Wilde, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking...”
– Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories (via wordsfrombooks)
“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against...”
– Albert Camus (via existential-love)
“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
– Albert Camus, “Don Juanism” in The Myth of Sisyphus (via angryoungman)
“When love ceases to be tragic it’s something else and the individual again...”
– Albert Camus, The Notebooks 1951-1959 (via lassitudeandnausea)
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“One can fall in love and still hate.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
June 2011
4 posts
“Young love, the kind that’s all poetry and magic and whisks you off into the...”
– Trigorin, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (via wickedolive)
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal...”
– Anton Chekhov (via armenia-cityinthesky)
“Blind love finds ideal beauty everywhere.”
– Anton Chekhov (via rafadelaghetto)
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
– Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements
May 2011
1 post
“If you close the door
The night could last forever.”
– velvet underground - after hours
April 2011
37 posts
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Where is the love
It is a sad state of affairs when the only people in the theater to see Blue Valentine are myself and two other single guys.
“There is no noble love but that which recognizes itself to be both short-lived...”
– Camus (via depressionparty)
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their...”
– (via heathenstreet)
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via abangnotawhimper)
“In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the...”
– Albert Camus (via darthpassavader)
“One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love…
I wrote this...”
– The original post is extremely insightful yet honest about the confusion that is love.
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People accept the love they think they deserve. No matter how much you may love them you can not change this fact.
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“I’m the hero of the story
Don’t need to be saved”
– Hero - Regina Spektor
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“Let me wrap myself around you
Let you show me how You see
And when you come...”
– The Killers
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“I write to remember
Cause I’m a million miles away
When you get this...”
– At the Drive In
Love is the question. Love is the answer
Most of time, when you’re not looking for something is when you notice everything wonderful in this world.
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“Well, I would not have moved if I knew you were here
Its some special action...”
– New Partner - Bonnie “Prince” Billy
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“i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles...”
– e. e. cummings
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“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without...”
– e e cummings
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“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”
– e.e.cummings
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Burning Man
The theme for Burning Man is Rites of Passage. Love is a rite of passage for us all. To feel love, to lose love, to rediscover love within ourselves. So look for Primacy of Love there, handing out keepsakes to remind everyone that “love is real, it is not just in long distance commercials”.
