les deserts de l'amour,

February 22, 2013

"Change yourself in the way you want everyone else to change
Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be jerks
Avoid thinking about winning the lottery while making love
Brainwash yourself before someone nasty beats you to it
Confess big secrets to people who aren’t very interested
Write a love letter to your evil twin during a lunar eclipse
Fool the tricky red beasts guarding the Wheels of Time
Locate the master codex and add erudite graffiti to it
Dream up wilder, wetter, more interesting problems
Change your name every day for a thousand days
Kill the apocalypse and annihilate Armageddon
Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues
Brag about what you can’t do and don’t have
Get a vanity license plate that reads KZMYAZ
Bow down to the greatest mystery you know
Make fun of people who make fun of people"

— Rob Brezsny, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.

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February 18, 2013

theparisreview:

Illustration by Pablo Picasso, Chez Camille Renault, Puteaux. From a collection of Livres d’Or, which are leather-bound books kept by many restaurateurs and bar-owners in which their guests, especially if well-known, are asked to inscribe their names and if possible a sentiment or two in praise of the food. Camille Renault’s restaurant outside Paris has one of the best known, volumes of them piled high on a special table in one of the dining rooms.

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February 18, 2013

beaupatrick:

At least i know bikes and trains won’t break my heart

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February 18, 2013

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by DZO

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February 18, 2013

"I love badly. That is, too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window."

— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via saisonlune)

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February 16, 2013

"When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence."

— Ingmar Bergman (via myarmisnotalilactree)

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February 13, 2013

Jerusalem Library, Palestine, 1935

(matteocarrera) via mythologyofblue

Jerusalem Library, Palestine, 1935

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February 12, 2013

"I have traveled fairly widely, both physically and even more in books."

— Patrick O’Brian (via theparisreview)

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February 11, 2013

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is

yelling: “Okay! Okay! I’m a rabbit! I’m a rabbit!”

—

(via black-culture)

This is one of my favorite jokes that makes me cry on the inside.

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Accurate.

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February 8, 2013