December 2011
…one of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...
– Douglas Coupland (via loveyourchaos)
November 2011
Rare Words
wingsforlashes:
acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists paralian - A person who lives near the sea aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets dwale - To wander about deliriously sabaism - The worship of stars dysphoria - An unwell feeling aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome mimp - To speak in a prissy...
10 Syndromes named after literary works/characters →
cheekynini:
1. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Unlike the namesake of this disorder, sufferers of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome perceive their body parts and other objects in altered sizes even if they don’t consume weird things with “Drink Me!” or “Eat Me!” on their labels. :P AIWS is commonly associated with migraines, brain tumors, use of psychoactive drugs, and signs of epilepsy and...
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to...
– Leo Tolstoy, in What is Art? (1896). (via adsertoris)
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I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I...
– John Cheever (via stephanievento)
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