January 2012
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December 2011
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“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And...”
– Haruki Murakami (via venebelle)
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My problem with saying goodbyes is that my mind can’t seem to grapple with the concept of not seeing someone ever again. It rejects this notion entirely and says no, this can’t be goodbye forever. How can someone who means so much to you leave your life so entirely? They can’t. These last couple of days have been difficult. After spending four months with a person, it’s...
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November 2011
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New blogpost: Surviving Copenhagen - Food
I honestly thought that at the end of the exchange experience I would go home emancipated because my money would be spent on travelling and shopping but as it turns out my priorities just aren’t skewered in that way. What’s a girl to do?
October 2011
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New Blogpost: Paying For Exam Fees
My uncle, whom I hadn’t spoken to for five years calls me. He lives in Budapest so it’s not that strange. He left the nest to roam the world when he was a little bit older than me. He asks me why I’m out in Eastern Europe by myself. And I tell him because I wanted to test myself and see if I can make it. To which he responds, if you want to...
“I never understand people who get annoyed at waiting. When you’re waiting...”
– Tom Gleeson
September 2011
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“She admires artists because their world is wide and their imagination takes them...”
– Marion Cotillard on her character Adriana, from Midnight in Paris (via kimserrano)
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The trick is not just to say yes, but to say yes to things you want. Things you actually want. After a while, the mantra ‘Say yes!’ becomes easy. And just like everything else in life, the easy way is probably not the right way. Because in a way, saying yes to everything is a form of cowardice. There is an absence of a thought process and there is an absence of consideration. The...
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“They rushed down the street together, digging everything in the early way they...”
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Distant Heartbeats: Ninety-five percent of the... →
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Ninety-five percent of the time I am so grateful that I’m not in love with anyone, that considering the mess life is I’m working it alone and don’t have to take anyone else’s feelings into consideration, etc.
The rest of the time I want to be in love. I snap out of it pretty fast, but when someone leans against me as we watch a movie, or a friend slips into bed with me...
August 2011
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Melbourne World's Most Liveable City →
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“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent...”
– Richard Dawkins. Perfectly stated. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– The Iliad (via thesemightysecrets)
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Bostonhagen →
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I wish all my relationships will always be the way they are now. When both parties know that they won’t be seeing each other for a very long time so an effort is made on both sides to make the most of the time spent together. Suddenly it’s not a big deal if one party forgets to put the dish washing detergent away or makes the bed the other other way. Every appointment lasts hours...
“The shoulder blades
sticking out as if they
wanted to grow wings through
that...”
– Charles Bukowski (via leprintemps)
July 2011
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“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of...”
– Plato, The Republic (via thatkief)
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Metamorphosis I - Philip Glass
“You are not alone. You are instead lonely. There is loneliness as can exist only...”
– James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement (via gaws)
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Books Are Not Better Than People or Unsolicited...
Let it not be forgotten that it is the reader that makes the book and not the other way around. Books aren’t some sort of antidote to philistinism where one need simply to consume it daily for it to take its mecidinal effects. No, it is the reader who bring forth their experiences and interpretations and their own ability to read into the text that makes a book great. At the end of...
“I fall in love with someone about twice a week, but I’m starting to think that’s...”
– ZACH VANDEZANDE (via sleepanddream) (via lovebot, sleepanddream)
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Watchmen- Alan Moore
Jon Osterman: Thermo-Dynamic Miracles. Events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I'd long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter. Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold. That is the crowning of unlikelihood. The Thermo-Dynamic Miracle.
Laurie Jupiter: But... If me, my birth, if that's a Thermo-Dynamic Miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!
Jon Osterman: Yes. Anybody in the world. But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget. I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
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“Once, when I was younger, I thought that I could be someone else. I’d move...”
– Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
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