July 2011
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via bookoasis)
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“‘Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,’ Polo said. ‘Perhaps...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (via evoketheforms)
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“I see thee better—in the Dark—
I do not need a Light—
The Love of Thee—a Prism...”
– Emily Dickinson, from “[I see thee better—in the Dark—]” (via proustitute)
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“What number did you give him when he passed through the door of your heart?”
– Alphonse Darlu to his student, Marcel Proust, as cited by William C. Carter in Marcel Proust: A Life, 2002 (via proustitute)
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“In the depths of a corridor, an unforeseen wall halted me; a remote light fell...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Immortal,” 1949, in Labyrinths (via proustitute)
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“How I yearn to throw myself into endless space and float above the awful abyss.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via rerylikes)
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“Your name, called into the wind,
slows the wind down.
When a body is ripe, it...”
– Valzhyna Mort, from “Sylt II” (via proustitute)
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via missfolly)
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“In matters of love, one must not fear, as in ordinary life, merely the future,...”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)
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