Quote #2500 from Sexus by Henry Miller
Fri, 2010-03-05 08:24 — GabrielleTo be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Quote #2476 from My So-Called Life [television show]
Fri, 2010-02-26 11:39 — burgundybabeIt just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?
Quote #2462 from The Emptiness of Man by João Cabral de Melo Neto
Wed, 2010-01-20 23:46 — GabrielleThe emptiness of man, though it resembles
fullness, and seems all of a piece, actually
is made of nothings, bits of emptiness
Quote #2433 from To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tue, 2009-12-29 09:54 — GabrielleAnd his fame lasts how long? It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr. Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
Quote #2406 from All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Fri, 2009-12-25 01:49 — Gabrielle. . . if you train a dog to eat potatoes and then afterwards put a piece of meat in front of him, he'll snap at it, it's his nature. And if you give a man a little bit of authority he behaves just the same way, he snaps at it too. The things are precisely the same. In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
Quote #2370 from Notes on Dali by George Orwell
Fri, 2009-10-09 09:58 — GabrielleHe is as antisocial as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it.
Quote #2365 from The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Thu, 2009-10-01 00:58 — GabrielleShe looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye. She had a round, pale face, the usual exhausted face of the slum girl who is twenty-five and looks forty, thanks to miscarriages and drudgery; and it wore, for the second I saw it, the most desolate, hopeless expression I have ever seen. It struck me then that we are mistaken when we say that 'It isn't the same for them as it would be for us', and that people bred in the slums can imagine nothing but the slums. For what I saw in her face was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough what was happening to her - understood as well as I did how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe.
Quote #2362 from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thu, 2009-10-01 00:04 — GabrielleYouth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood – she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
Quote #2354 from Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Tue, 2009-09-22 20:33 — GabrielleWhere else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Quote #2338 from Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowksi
Fri, 2009-08-07 20:10 — Gabriellethe flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
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