December 2011
42 posts
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
—Anthony Burgess (via misswallflower)
“I like people too much or not at all.”
—Sylvia Plath (via boatsand-hoes)
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“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
—Stephen Fry (via misswallflower)
“Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.”
—peter elbow
