February 2012
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“And indeed, how have we the heart to go on living, how can we move a finger to...”
– Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time (Volume V: The Captive & The Fugitive)
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“I was passing through one of those periods of our youth, unprovided with any one...”
– Within a Budding Grove, Marcel Proust
(via andyisreadingbooks)
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Seriously, all the Nabokov fans
mizzfaulkner:
Lolita ain’t got shit on Pale Fire. Peace out.
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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion,...”
– James Joyce, The Dead (via like-a-leaf-in-the-fire)
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“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he also was an...”
– Jorge Luis Borges in “The Circular Ruins” (via menageme)
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“Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is...”
– Marcel Proust (via bardsandsages)
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“He would make Odette play him the phrase again, ten, twenty times on end,...”
– Swann’s Way Proust (via yastapasta)
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“The lie, the perfect lie, about people we know, about the relations we have had...”
– Marcel Proust, The Captive (via rantsandravingsofashinykey)
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speakmnemosyne:
The universe of this night has the vastness of oblivion and the precision of a fever.
—Jorge Luis Borges, Insomnia
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“…the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present...”
– Jorge Luis Borges “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (via coryhall)
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“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood...”
– Marcel Proust (via timemedleystyle)
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov May 10, 1934–February...
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“Silence, I believe, avoids me, as water on the beach avoids stranded fish.”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the...”
– James Joyce (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things...”
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goodnightrachel asked: "Pretentious literary quotes and pictures of fine-ass ladies." Immediate follow. Let's be friends.
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