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musings of the modern ponderer

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde

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❝ Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

— Carl Jung (via akumamatata)

(Source: oliverjude)

❝ Soon we’ll come to a bookshop. I usually buy a book there. Then I’ll get a massive coffee. Probably induce a panic attack. Read the entire book, and go home. This is my ridiculous life, and I love that I don’t have to explain it to anyone.

— —Laura Marling (x)

(Source: myloveisdrivenbyrage)

❝ I have buried you in every place I’ve been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.

— Bon Iver  (via napsie)

(Source: seabois)

❝ I know too much and not enough.

— Allen Ginsberg (via larmoyante)

❝ Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.

— James Franco (via stefansalvawhore)

(Source: anxiousintrovert)

❝ I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born, but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth.

— Sister Joan Chittister (via thenewwomensmovement)

(Source: stfuprolifers)

❝ Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

— Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)

❝ We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

—  Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper (via larmoyante)

❝ I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know?

— Peter CameronSomeday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (via 4mbivalent)

❝ Everyone sees what you appear to be; few really know what you are.

— Niccolo Machievelli (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

❝ Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn’t you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren’t yours. It’s not as if I can conjure you there completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

— David Levithan, The Lovers Dictionary (via lovesweetlylovetenderly)

(Source: bookmania)

❝ There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.

— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle (via lovesweetlylovetenderly)

(Source: rochelledelaroche)

❝ I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald (via cavum)

(Source: liveandletlive)

❝ I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.

— C.S. Lewis (via godmoves)

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❝ New Yorkers are permeable. Therefore, we’re sane. Consequently, we’re the target of the impermeable. And the insane. And of course, New York is where everyone comes to be forgiven. What’ve you done wrong? Tell me. How have you sinned?

— Shortbus (via tallerthanataxicab)