May 2013
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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
– Vladimir Nabokov, trilingual writer that understood the very different personalities of the languages he spoke. (via youngfolksociety)
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There are certain places and moments that are impossible to intellectualize. Not because you can’t think about it, but because you feel it more than anything else. Everything you try to make of it in those moment comes out like a blurry, shadowy mess. Certain things simply grab ahold of you, you learn to move, and then it lets you go.
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April 2013
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But she had these amazing eyes that devoured everyone.
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Likes right now: Jon Snow, doing yoga to Santigold with my huge white headphones on at midnight, the Duende 2007 Syrah, the sunset happening out this window right now.
Dislikes: The fact that I am stuck in this library not enjoying any of the above.
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Anonymous asked: I want to get to know you.
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You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via ihatenietzsche)
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You build a garden just like you build a fortress — to see the future.
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March 2013
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For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror
– The First Elegy, Rainer Maria Rilke
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Los Angeles
Missed my flight home, lost my wallet but not really, took the 8 hour “Mega Bus” back home to LA with my best friend, arrived in Union Station 3am, next day had a party thrown in my honor by 24 hour strangers/soul sisters. Ate lobster ice cream for the first time. Eh. Went to the Kubrick exhibit a second time, focused on the costumes and Barry Lyndon indoor sets. Lay by my pool a total...
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...
– John Steinbeck (via youngfolksociety)
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