January 2012
trumspringa
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.
“Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the...”
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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“This every soul seeketh and for the sake of this doth all her actions, having an...”
– Plato, The Republic (c. 380 BC)
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There is a wait so long. You'll never wait so...
My opinion on how school is going to be in 100...
Teacher: Today we will be learning about the start of the World Wide Web War on January 19/20, 2012, now turn to page 394 on your Kindles
Student: My great grandparents fought in that war. On their Tumblr blogs.
Teacher: You must be very proud of them
“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via thesoundofmelodies)
embracinggrace asked: 18, 36, 44 :)
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. (via ruineshumaines)
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I want the world around me to disappear for a...
Time to change that.
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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo
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