Mierzwiak, Please Let Me Keep This Memory

106 notes "I’m just a station on your way,
I know I’m not your lover."
— Leonard Cohen, “Winter Lady” (via redvelvetteacake)
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2,056 notes "There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, translation by Justin O’Brien (via frenchtwist)
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158 notes "He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who tear apart and destroy defenseless people. He was too clear-sighted and too wise to be able to live; he was too weak to fight, he had that weakness of noble, beautiful people who are not able to do battle against the fear of misunderstandings, unkindness, or intellectual lies. Such persons know beforehand that they are powerless and go down in defeat in such a way that they shame the victor. He knew people as only people of great sensitivity are able to know them, as somebody who is alone and sees people almost prophetically, from one flash of a face. He knew the world in a deep and extraordinary manner. He was himself a deep and extraordinary world."
—
Milená Jesenská, speaking about Franz Kafka

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9,910 notes "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
— Fernando Pessoa (via milkthistles)
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2,600 notes "I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2am, I am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes."
— Anna Peters (via spaceforfantasy)
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23 notes "And so I have before me
two views in one:
a mournful cemetery made
of tiny eternal rest
or,
rising from the sea,
the azure sea, dazzling white cliffs,
cliffs that are here because they are."
— Wisława Szymborska, from “Foraminifera” (transl. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Baranczak)
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34,279 notes "We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot."
— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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1,977 notes "Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty"
— Into The Wild (via budddha)
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