Signa // Verba

"Writing is easy. You just stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."

— Douglas Adams (via rcjohnso) (via teachingliteracy)

"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."

— Herman Hesse (via devilduck)

journalofanobody:The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. —Emile M. Cioran

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Aperture: f/16
Exposure: 1/125th
Focal Length: 70mm

"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
—Emile M. Cioran"

— (via journalofanobody)

inspirens OMG! (by Rui Palha)

"In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am."

— Rainer Maria Rilke from: “Sonnets to Orpheus” (via santosha65)

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"The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle."

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo (via heartmindawakening)

heartisbreaking: - The Way of the Bow - by 小川 Ogawasan on Flickr.

"If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something."

— Federico Fellini (via labyrintho)

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"Let everything happen to you,
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going,
No feeling is final."

— Rainer Maria Rilke (via loveyourchaos)

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"As always at soirees, she was wearing a gown in the fashion of the time, quite open in front and back. Her bust, which had always looked like marble to Pierre, was now such a short distance from him that he could involuntarily make out with his nearsighted eyes the living loveliness of her shoulders and neck, and so close to his lips that he had only to lean forward a little to touch her. He sensed the warmth of her body, the smell of her perfume, and the creaking of her corset as she breathed. He saw not her marble beauty, which made one with her gown, he saw and sensed all the loveliness of her body, which was merely covered with clothes. And once he had seen it, he could not see otherwise, as we cannot return to a once-exposed deception"

— War and Peace. The most beautiful person I’ve ever seen… (via noapparatusexceptgutfear)