Silent Reverie

"I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."

- Jonathan Safran Foer (via theorthodoxheretic)

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"Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle."

- Vladimir Nabokov (Thank you, proustitute,  loeuvre-au-noir, whichdreamedit & dialogues)

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?"

- Oscar Wilde (via theorthodoxheretic)

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"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pleasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."

- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917 (via wonderfulambiguity)

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"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you."

- Hafiz (via loveyourchaos)

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