February 2010
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Swimmer and female shark he has rescued confront each other. For some minutes...
– Comte de Lautreamont’s Maldoror
January 2010
9 posts
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Nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic… whether it is a...
– Borges
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
– G. K. Chesterton
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I am having a lover affair with a voice. A voice that gets to things so deep in...
– Anais Nin, quoting a patient.
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It used to be fashionable in Spain to close formal letters with QBSP (Que Besa...
– Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of Love
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During the Middle Ages, the unruly hair of “witches” was thought to...
– Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of Love
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We are amazing bursts of dream and matter.
– Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of Love
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[Benjamin Franklin’s] reputation was based on anecdotes such as this:...
– Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of Love
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Artists are divided into those who create their own inner world, and those who...
– Tarkovsky