February 2012
5 posts
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
– Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before (via mythologyofblue)
January 2012
21 posts
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave...”
– William S. Burroughs (via levantine-chant)
“I am told that he did not drink like an ordinary toper, but like a savage, with...”
– Charles Baudelaire on Edgar Allen Poe, from Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works, 1852), via (via theshipthatflew)
“Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self.”
– Tom Bissell (via mythologyofblue)
Dear all, as you are following what it is that inspires me and gives uplift, perhaps I can breathe word to you of this:
some of my writing, hopes and attempts at clarity can be found here from now on - http://birdsongsofpersia.tumblr.com/
The old journal will still be utilised and adored, I’m sure, la : http://stolencompass.livejournal.com/
I hope winter is finding you well and...
December 2011
2 posts
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without...”
– Albert Camus
(via sunflower-soul)
November 2011
10 posts
“So you mustn’t be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of...”
– Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by S. Mitchell)
“There’s a famous story about the treatment of mental patients during the Middle...”
– Peter Handke, Interviewed [via] (via itnumberpi)
“The moment you possess anything, the world takes on another aspect. In any case,...”
– B Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (via notsoterriblymisanthropic)
“The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl...”
– Banksy (via perfectlylogicalparadox)
October 2011
35 posts
“His destinations are often locales where he knows no one. He travels not for...”
– Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, from “An Interview with Damon Galgut” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
