February 2012
136 posts
“I.
Our kiss is a secret handshake, a password.
We love like spies, like...”
– Mindy Nettifee, “This is the Nonsense of Love”
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
authenticity (philosophy) →
jesuisperdu:
Authenticity is a technical term in existentialist philosophy, and is also used in the philosophy of art and psychology. In philosophy, the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external forces, pressures and influences which are very different from, and other than, itself. Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to...
iwasateenageunicorn:
Now, Now - St. Vincent
You...
“Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,...”
– Marginalia, Billy Collins
“Late night and rain wakes me, a downpour,
wind thrashing in the leaves, huge...”
– Late Night by Margaret Atwood
“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my...”
– Charles Bukowski
