December 2010
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Hey Na Na Katie Herzig (via alyssssaa)
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The truth wears off →
An article about the decline effect and scientific method by Jonah Lehrer in ‘The New Yorker’, December 13th, 2010.
All I can say is hahahaha.
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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– from ‘Herzog’ — Saul Bellow (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Write about love
I’ve been home in New Zealand for 12 days; it’s midnight now, heralding the 13th night I’ve spent. This year the garden seems as green as ever. An olive tree that I never knew was an olive tree rests peacefully in one corner, its characteristic leaf colour reflected in the lavender hedges at the other end of the strip. Evenings take on a classical tinge. There doesn’t seem...
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Open Season High Highs (via theunfound)
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Every day the same dream →
“An flash game made by Paolo Pedercini of Molle Industria, ‘Every Day The Same Dream’ is a short, bleak little tale about a day in a man’s life. Or, rather, every day, since they’re all the same, and nothing he can ever do will change that. Or will it?” [source]
Please don’t let my life end up like this.
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“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the...”
– from ‘Dracula’ — Bram Stoker (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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The Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine...
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Congratulations Monash Medical School, Class of... →
4 out of 5 years together — longer than the average marriage :)
So proud and grateful to know this bunch of amazing people.
I’ll wait my turn next year xx
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Devoured
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter - bitter,” he answered; “But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.” -‘In The Desert’ — Stephen Crane
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“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions,...”
– from ‘The Fountainhead’ — Ayn Rand (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Love Me Yiruma (via minjiiix)
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Bright bright lights
It has been the most humid beginning to December this year - the wettest in the last 5 years I’ve been here. There’s a weight in the air unfamiliar to all of us, given the years of drought.
An absolute stranger died the other day, aged 23. I heard about it on Facebook when mutual friends put up eulogies. I don’t know if it’s right to be writing about it here. Weird,...
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– from ‘The Great Gatsby’ — F. Scott Fitzgerald (via alicante-lullaby)
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A note
Dear friends who went to Mornington today,
Your photos look amazing. I wish I had gone — it turns out the friend who I was really waiting on to see the house with me didn’t show. Pathology lab vs. a topiary maze near the sea on the loveliest of early summer Saturdays — a no brainer.
I hope you had as much fun as your gorgeous selves look like you had in your photographs :)
xx
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The Great Gatsby →
Read “The Great Gatsby” online (by F. Scott Fitzgerald). :)
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“Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via rerylikes and jesusswiftfoot)
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The unbelievable privilege of reading something...
Last night in a black armchair at Borders, waiting for an old flatmate’s party in East Richmond to begin, I read The Great Gatsby for the first time:
Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.
“It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. I was going up...
