January 2011
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“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via mathematicatmosphere)
'If' by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make...
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Donate to the flood relief appeal: Queensland... →
Please help thousands of people who will be working to rebuild their homes and lives - many will be homeless or without electricity.
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Queensland Floods | Brisbane Floods 2011 | Flood... →
The scale of these floods is just horrifying after days of watching nothing but flood-related coverage on tv :(
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Toffle and Snufkin - An excerpt from the Moomins story ‘Who will comfort Toffle?’ They looked at each other in silence, a toffle and a snufkin, whilst the Summer moon shone. Perhaps Toffle was not to blame for his legs becoming so weak. Lost in his shyness he whispered: “I will write what I mean.” and then disappeared. He sat down to write about his great loneliness,...
“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a...”
– Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro (via ratak-monodosico)
vulpecula:
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy — reality,...
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to...”
– Letter to Eric Kennington, 6 May 1935
T. E. Lawrence
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