February 2012
204 posts
The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and...
– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (via frenchtwist)
All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy,...
– February N-Sphere | Moving Showcase: Béla Tarr and the investigation of a storyteller above suspicion
Quote: Werckmeister Harmóniák. 2000. Béla Tarr
via in-circles (via frenchtwist)
This monster, the body, this miracle, its pain, will soon make us taper into...
– Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill (via frenchtwist)
Whatever the reason may be, the sounds, smells, and images of the world we...
– Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (via invisiblestories)
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything...
– André Breton, Nadja (via frenchtwist)
But life is not all eloquence and adulation: life is wiping the baby’s bum; it...
– William Gass, “Emerson and the Essay” (via invisiblestories)
One wants to turn away—and cry
for fire to break out on the stairs
and raze...
– Dana Gioia, from “Maze without a Minotaur” (via proustitute)