December 2009
79 posts
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
(via wewillnotbeundersold)
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via fatalistichues) (via dondante) (via thingsgohazy)
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who,...”
– John Dryden
“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot...”
– Elizabeth Bowen (Bowen’s Court)
“He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one,...”
– Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)
