March 2011
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Mar 30th
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“Quand on écrit sur les femmes, il faut tremper la plume dans...”
– D. Diderot
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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“The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it...”
– Julius Charles Hare
Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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“Your name is the only onomatopeia I know for love.”
Mar 22nd
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These are the 100 most beautiful words in the... →
Ineffable. Chatoyant. Diaphanous.
Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 13th
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“YES, I’M PARANOID. BUT AM I PARANOID ENOUGH?”
– Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 8th
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“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”
– Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis
Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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The unbearable lightness of words.
All languages that derive from Latin form the word “compassion” by combining the prefix “with” (com-) and the root meaning “suffering” (Late Latin, passio). In other languages - Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish for instance - this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means “feeling” (Czech,...
Mar 7th
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Mar 7th
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Mar 7th
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“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love...”
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 3rd
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 1st
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I met the walrus. He met John Lennon.
Mar 1st
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“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– Rosemary Urquico (via kblitz)
Mar 1st
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