der-eremit: Batto embu taikai at Nakamura Hachimangu shrine in Moka
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Signa // Verba
“ We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers (via musingsinfemininity)
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“ We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (via doyourememberpassion)
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“ A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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“ all things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
friedrich nietzsche (via rhea137)
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“ I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka (via ellavalon)
