July 2011
18 posts
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
– Anton Chekhov, Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894). (via blackmarksonpaper)
“The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there...”
– Levin’s musings upon seeing Kitty, Anna Karenina (via jennten)
“I do not feel I have been told a fact hitherto unknown to me, but rather, that I...”
– wh auden (forward to sens-plastique)
“I do not love you; I have shed
The weight of longing and remorse.
But still...”
– Mikahail Yuryevich Lermontov (via beatnikpoetry)
“Every man is his own hell.”
– hl mencken (via quellequaintrelle)
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a...”
– Cicero (via wildcat2030)
“The key to true creative problem solving is the ability to work in ambiguity –...”
– The Power of Uncertainty :: Tips :: The 99 Percent (via slantback)
“For knowledge, whatever it is worth, from the most precise mathematics to the...”
– witold gombrowicz (via quellequaintrelle)
“Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic.”
– carlo mollino 