Mars is bright tonight.

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." wandering spirit(s) rmb_ki101('20fbseio1cg','','26','26',1,'ffffff','010020','aa0000'); rm2d_ki101('2','150','75','2kk0bdxm6mk','ff0000',0);

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i never want to let go of this tumblr because there are so many fond memories associated with it, and i want to be active here again but life has changed so much since i launched this that i’m not sure where and how to take it from here  also i don’t see or remember any of the old people from here anymore

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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1

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The purpose of poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

Milan Kundera, Immortality

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In my childhood diary I wrote: ‘I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.’

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Milan Kundera, Immortality

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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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But even had they blinded her, still nothing might have happened, had not precise fate, that synchronizing phantom, mixed within its alembic the car and the dog and the sun and the shade and the wet and the weak and the strong and the stone.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country; I wanted to be a famous spy.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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I leaf again and again through these miserable memories, and keep asking myself, was it then, in the glitter of that remote summer, that the rift in my life began;

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

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Cheers.

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Leonardo DiCaprio at the Oscars in 1994, when he was first nominated, and in 2016, when he received his first Academy Award. 22 years in between.

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Finally.