[laemealoyn]

a navigation through the wild.

#love letter - words of romance, sentiments, & yearning.

#inbrief - words written in brevity with long-lasting impact.

#quotes - words quoted from a good source or subject.

#analysis - words of a profound analytical nature. 

#poetry - words written by poets.

#observation - words written via an apt perspective.

#readings - words picked from a longer text worth reading.

[liebesfraulein]

“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”

— Joseph Mitchell

[apesoformythoughts]

«I once received another piece of life-changing advice […] My classmate in Paris, the novelist-to-be Jean-Olivier Tedesco, pronounced, as he prevented me from running to catch a subway, “I don’t run for trains.” 

Snub your destiny. I have taught myself to resist running to keep on schedule. This may seem a very small piece of advice, but it registered. In refusing to run to catch trains, I have felt the true value of elegance and aesthetics in behavior, a sense of being in control of my time, my schedule, and my life. Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

Quitting a high-paying position, if it is your decision, will seem a better payoff than the utility of the money involved (this may seem crazy, but I’ve tried it and it works). This is the first step toward the stoic’s throwing a four-letter word at fate.» 

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan

[luthienne]

Nikki Giovanni, from “Age”

[weltenwellen]

Jonice Webb, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

[luthienne]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)

[Text ID: “I longed for love unbearably,”]

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

From Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door”, Poems 1962-2012

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[vilicity]

“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.””

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[laemealoyn]

Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue).

The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours,” originally published c. 1998

[barbienefertiti]

“A man who cannot control himself will always be a slave.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[lecter-nexus]

“Old movies are secondhand dreams.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Ode to a Village Movie Theater,” Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (California Press, 1990)

[attractive--nuisance-blog]

“Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door.”

—

Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World   (via peachbabes)

And then, of getting on Tumblr and reading this quote.

[primulaceas]

Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana c. January 1950 (translated by Velma García-Gorena)

[laemealoyn]

by Alyson Provax