If I Were A Great Lake
Two Prisoners behind bars,
One looks at the mud.
The other looks at the stars.
One looks at the mud.
The other looks at the stars.
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (via harukimurakamiquotes)
12I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via sweethotjazz)
I just tell you and though I don’t sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense; there ain’t any answer, there ain’t going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, now that’s the answer.
Gertrude Stein, from Brewsie And Willie (via violentwavesofemotion)
A BAG which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged.
Gertrude Stein, “A Frightful Release” (via thehungrygods)
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (via anotherblogaboutquotes)
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via gwythaint17)
You can hold back from the suffering of the world. You have free permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided.” — Franz Kafka
(via barricadesmysterieuses)
What thing worthy of love can be found in me?
Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milen (via dannaturalist)
