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Dec 11th
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious...”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Dec 11th
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,...”
— Douglas Adams
Dec 11th
Seamonsters 6 - Jean-christophe Sartoris
Dec 11th
the war - Ebru Sİdar
Dec 11th
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is...”
—  John Ruskin (via...
Dec 11th
(via dondante)
Dec 11th
(via etiamsi)
Dec 11th
Chromosphere
Dec 11th

You've been unfollowed due to your...

thesacrament: delacroix: dannikins: I don’t want to hear about your bloody vagina for crying...
Dec 11th
aubade: blogut: Leviathan by Matthew Cusick ...
Dec 11th
sea-motion - Anja Bührer
Dec 11th
city child - Anja Bührer
Dec 10th
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in...”
— Douglas Adams
Dec 10th
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?...”
—  Jalal ad-Din Rumi (via...
Dec 10th
“Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking,...”
— Douglas Adams
Dec 10th
“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The...”
— Robert Heinlein
Dec 10th
“Dare to be naïve.”
— Buckminster Fuller
Dec 10th
“My friends are my “estate.” Forgive me then the...”
— Emily Dickinson
Dec 10th
“In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
Chaos - Jean-claude Berens
Dec 10th
Ne jamais se retourner - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 10th
ballerines - Claude Tenot - Blandice’s Room
Dec 10th
Greenwich Point Study #5 - Marc Krutiak
Dec 10th
“As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to...”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dec 10th
Ruben Brulat
Dec 10th
“People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy...”
— Aesop, The Dog in the Manger ...
Dec 10th
Werner Schnell - let’s roll !
Dec 10th
“I cannot without great astonishment — I might say without...”
— Galileo Galilei
Dec 10th
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us,...”
— Epicurus
Dec 10th
“What you know about the world would barely fill an ashtray,...”
— Sister Anne, Spring
Dec 10th
Untitled - Bogart Photo
Dec 10th
Barry Underwood - Headlands
Dec 10th
“You know how I always believe in the future … Without...”
— Peter Kropotkin
Dec 10th
“I have always counted it as the greatest sorrow in the world...”
— August James, Spring
Dec 10th
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
passing waves - Klas Falk
Dec 10th
“When we look back, the only things we cherish are those...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
Un samedi soir sur la Terre - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 10th
“Security is for cadavers.”
— Bob Parsons
Dec 10th
Listen Listen
while my guitar gently weeps - the beatles
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
fuckyeahthelastframe: A love song for Bobby Long, 2004...
Dec 10th
travelhighlights: ‘Before Sunset’ tour of Paris: Notre...
Dec 10th

15:12:19 – 04.09.2020

The priest told him about the teenage mother who’d sold her newborn to a welfare agency of very...
Dec 10th
fringesofmind: ...
Dec 10th
Barry Underwood
Dec 10th
“There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
“Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the...”
— William Mountford
Dec 10th
Monochrome Turner’s sigh - Sylvain Lagarde
Dec 10th
“STARE INTO THE ABYSS. MAKE IT BLINK FIRST.”
— Courage Wolf’s advice...
Dec 10th
Dec 10th
Ruben Brulat
Dec 10th
Ruben Brulat
Dec 10th
Dark Water - Ornerra (via Tomohide Ikeya) ...
Dec 10th
dream hole (via requiemm) ...
Dec 10th
“God may not play dice with the universe, but something...”
— Paul Erdős
Dec 10th
Univers - Rina H.
Dec 10th
“All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us...”
— Buckminster Fuller
Dec 10th
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the...”
— Mohandas Gandhi
Dec 10th
Brendan Lynch - Drip
Dec 10th
toridactyl: (via daughterofthewillowtrees)
Dec 10th
“I’ve found that every time I’ve made a radical...”
— David Bowie
Dec 10th
Dec 10th
“All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
nightly visitor - Anja Bührer
Dec 10th
metamorphosis - Silviu Anghel
Dec 10th
“If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 10th
TENDER - Ian
Dec 10th
“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 9th
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and...”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Dec 9th
Aether
Dec 9th
That Crazy Spiral in the Sky? It Might Be Real ...
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
The Fountain
Dec 9th
wall escape
Dec 9th
unknown
Dec 9th
“Sex is only dirty if it’s done right.”
— Woody Allen
Dec 9th
“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
— Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
Dec 9th
caldaean: Aurora Borealis as seen from space via...
Dec 9th
“What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling...”
— Galileo Galilei
Dec 9th
If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out....
Dec 9th
“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my...”
— Galileo Galilei To you know...
Dec 9th
“A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.”
— Adlai Stevenson
Dec 9th
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the...”
— Albert Einstein
Dec 9th
“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do...”
— Bertrand Russell
Dec 9th
bonerparty: remember when that shit was so incredibly...
Dec 9th
“A lover or a fighter? Fuck that noise. I’m a lover AND...”
— Me, at training today (also I...
Dec 9th
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble...”
—  John W. Gardner (via...
Dec 9th
(via spokesuchscurvy)
Dec 9th
bravenewhope: pencilplanetes: (via inc0mmunicado)
Dec 9th
“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 9th
me and my friend - Anja Bührer
Dec 9th
Boston Study #2 - Marc Krutiak
Dec 9th
Hoppípolla - Sabina Dimitriu
Dec 9th
“Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now —...”
— William Mountford
Dec 9th
“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”
— J.H Vincent
Dec 9th
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It...”
— Susan Sontag
Dec 9th
Alone in dark - Joel Silly
Dec 9th
“It’s not how you run from your past that counts. It’s how...”
— Kargaos, Spring
Dec 9th
fringesofmind: 0__o
Dec 9th
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people...”
— Buddha (via...
Dec 9th
(via aubade)
Dec 9th

god

I love writing.
Dec 9th
“I prefer a more open-minded relationship with the world....”
— August James, Spring
Dec 9th
stairwaytocalifornia: Punch Drunk Love Such an...
Dec 9th

formsprang 040

What exactly is Spring about? - anon spring is the first volume of four in the first and final...
Dec 9th
“They’re only mistakes if you don’t learn from...”
— Kargaos, Spring
Dec 9th
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
— West African proverb
Dec 9th
“Gentlemen: you have now reached the last point. If anyone of...”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Dec 9th
“The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 9th
Lost quaver for an lonely tree - Sylvain Lagarde
Dec 9th

20:01:22 – 04.01.2020

emmabutton: nihilnoetia: And then, for the barest moment, they both came undone. Their...
Dec 9th
Barry Underwood - Rodeo Beach
Dec 9th

03:51:54 – 04.02.2020

Some nights morning was a distant ideal, a golden yellow stain swept forever out of reach. The...
Dec 9th
“Don’t apologise for being ignorant. Just stop being...”
— Joaquin, Spring
Dec 9th
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of...”
— Washington Irving
Dec 9th
“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always...”
— Hedy Lamarr
Dec 9th
“Two rules to success in life. 1. Don’t tell people...”
— Anonymous (via kendalllouise)
Dec 9th
Werner Schnell - lonely tree
Dec 9th
Katie Lee Portfolio - add color to my sunset sky
Dec 9th
“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as...”
— Ann Landers (via anditslove)...
Dec 9th
Nocturn by Candido Baldacchino. - Baldacchino Candido
Dec 9th
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven...”
— John Milton // Paradise Lost...
Dec 9th
“Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who...”
— Joseph Roux (via reckon) (via...
Dec 9th

Life is NOT a romance novel. Accept it.

themidnighttsociety: (via vfrey) It’s not an indie film, either.
Dec 9th
“You fool. You do not do such things to children. A child is...”
— -Warren Ellis in FILAMENT...
Dec 9th
Barry Underwood
Dec 9th
“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man...”
— Horace
Dec 9th
…….. - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 9th
“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 9th
“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 9th
“The creationist is a sham religious person who, curiously,...”
— Fred Hoyle
Dec 9th
find me - Ebru Sİdar
Dec 9th
“Bigotry and dogmatic adherence to ancient beliefs have...”
— `Abdu’l-Bahá
Dec 9th
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying...”
— Susan Sontag
Dec 8th
“It should be a good story— speak about a time and place that...”
— Ismail Merchant
Dec 8th
Penny Arcade!
Dec 8th
“My throat is store. sore. I do not have an inventory and...”
— Kimber, on illness (via...
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
David Bowie
Dec 8th
“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own...”
— Francis Herbert Bradley
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
Aha! (Had to.)
Dec 8th
via
Dec 8th
“The only reason I doubt myself is so others won’t do...”
— Brandy Erard
Dec 8th
This guy is way cooler than you will ever be.
Dec 8th
Tony Yang
Dec 8th
delacroix: Boohoo to you, you whiney babies. Oh, you....
Dec 8th
“In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.”
— Obi-Wan Kenobi
Dec 8th
Calm Agitation - Wilson Hurst There is no need to ruin...
Dec 8th
“No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it...”
— Peter Bayne
Dec 8th
“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To...”
— Bruce Chatwin
Dec 8th
Warch Watch
leprintemps: fuckyeahspace: johnzanussi: “This music was recorded by Voyager I and II as they...
Dec 8th
fuckyeahginacarano: fallingdust: It might be is love.
Dec 8th
“Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in...”
— Emily Dickinson
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a...”
— Peter Kropotkin
Dec 8th
“The fact is that we don’t want to be free. What is...”
— U. G. Krishnamurti
Dec 8th
fringesofmind: wowza, hello 853 debbie downers! cheer the...
Dec 8th
Bird - Ivan Ivanovic
Dec 8th
“Sorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that...”
— Jean Ingelow
Dec 8th
“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom...”
— Susan Sontag
Dec 8th
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is enlightenment.”
— Lao Tzu
Dec 8th
The wind and me… - Mirabilia Images
Dec 8th
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for...”
— Thomas Mann
Dec 8th
“Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.”
— Mason Cooley
Dec 8th
(via lastchatwithphontaine)
Dec 8th
“Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said…...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 8th
“As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing...”
— Horace
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
Il ne restera rien 3 – Babel - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 8th
“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 8th
Hand - Andreas Heumann
Dec 8th
Untitled - Milad Gheisari
Dec 8th
“Whatever pursuit you are indulging in, somewhere along the...”
— U. G. Krishnamurti
Dec 8th

The Songs We Were Taught

thanksforstanding: Maybe we only have one story each that we write Over and over until we’re done...
Dec 8th
“i’m too sexy for this chat too sexy for this chattt i’m...”
— Kimber on IM to me. (via...
Dec 8th

the flip sides of awesome

Co-conspirators! There are two things you should know about, and they are juxtapositions of the same...
Dec 8th
Joyeuse soirée aux amoureux - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 8th
“To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that...”
— Katherine Mansfield
Dec 8th

Niven's Laws for writers

3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don’t. 4) It is a sin to waste the...
Dec 8th
L’homme au bord du verre de pastis - Alexandre Parrot
Dec 8th
into the morning light - Anja Bührer
Dec 8th
“We are but dust and shadow.”
— Horace
Dec 8th
“Gambling is a kind of tax: a tax on stupidity. A tax on...”
— Greg Egan
Dec 8th
Playground - Ceslovas Cesnakevicius
Dec 8th
snowland 001 - Yein
Dec 8th
“We live in a century in which everything has been said. The...”
— Charles Hartshorne
Dec 8th
“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows...”
— Witter Bynner
Dec 8th
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and...”
— Mark Twain
Dec 8th
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
— John Maynard Keynes
Dec 7th
Souvlaki Space Station ///
Dec 7th
“You hold it, I’ll punch it in the throat repeatedly...”
— Kimber, on fighting tumblr.
Dec 7th
(via *Blueberry Pie)
Dec 7th
via
Dec 7th
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than...”
— David Bowie
Dec 7th
hirondelle - Alice Lemarin
Dec 7th
“All of us are broken - some of us more than others.”
— Rene Russo
Dec 7th
“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Real...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dec 7th
“Luck can only get you so far.”
— Hermione Granger
Dec 7th
“Art is long, life is short.”
— Seneca
Dec 7th
avant l’orage - Claude Tenot - Blandice’s Room
Dec 7th
“If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is...”
— Horace
Dec 7th
Yes, I am an idiot.
Dec 7th
unknown
Dec 7th
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about...”
— Lawrence Lessig
Dec 7th
individuals - Anja Bührer
Dec 7th
minolta: singlittlebirdy: whisperingwillow: Tree...
Dec 7th
helloclarice: Ahem. Yes.
Dec 7th
spokesuchscurvy: loveyourchaos: cicconeyouthh: ...
Dec 7th
Signals - Andreas Heumann
Dec 7th
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 7th
Section of M51 with Progenitor Star
Dec 7th
“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more...”
— Larry Niven
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
“He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 7th
“No one feels another’s grief, no one understands...”
— Franz Schubert
Dec 7th
Underneath - Sylvain Lagarde
Dec 7th
Scar of a sweet memory - Sylvain Lagarde
Dec 7th
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747,...”
— Fred Hoyle, arguing that...
Dec 7th
Untitled - Ceslovas Cesnakevicius
Dec 7th
Midnight blue - Esmahan özkan
Dec 7th
“SEIZE THE DAY. BY THE THROAT.”
— Courage Wolf’s advice...
Dec 7th
“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people...”
— John Millington Synge
Dec 7th
kevinharling1: One of my favourite pics
Dec 7th
Whaleback Light & Tree - Marc Krutiak
Dec 7th
“I can’t paint the way they want me to paint and they...”
— Rembrandt
Dec 7th
pavots - Claude Tenot - Blandice’s Room
Dec 7th
Untitled - Milad Gheisari
Dec 7th
“Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a...”
— William Mountford
Dec 7th
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others,...”
— Katherine Mansfield
Dec 7th
The Eagle Has Risen: Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula
Dec 7th
Merged - Andreas Heumann
Dec 7th
“I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal...”
— Eugène Ionesco
Dec 7th
“You need a reason to be sad. You don’t need a reason...”
— Louis Sachar
Dec 7th
Miami Beach - Andreas Heumann
Dec 7th
“There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I...”
— Fred Hoyle
Dec 7th
Barry Underwood
Dec 7th
“By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living,...”
— Katherine Mansfield
Dec 6th
Aaaaaaand had to.
Dec 6th
Dec 6th
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change....”
— Katherine Mansfield
Dec 6th

I live in New Zealand aka Kiwiland aka...

thekaldorei: nihilnoetia: thekaldorei: Beat that. Oh dear. I shouldn’t, but…I don’t? No,...
Dec 6th
“1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next...”
— Niven’s Laws
Dec 6th
sweetdreamsetc: ...
Dec 6th
“That’s the thing about people who think they hate...”
— Larry Niven The same can be...
Dec 6th
Woman on mirror - Andreas Heumann
Dec 6th
“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 6th
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a...”
— Franz Werfel
Dec 6th
dreams of flying - Anja Bührer
Dec 6th
Dec 6th

formspring 039

hello, nathan. i’m a perpetual misanthrope, i can’t help it. I find that most people are...
Dec 6th
“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how...”
— Willa Cather
Dec 6th
Barry Underwood
Dec 6th
“I feel like my mouth is high fiving the rest of my body.”
— Nathan (via delacroix) Life...
Dec 6th
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in...”
— Willa Carther
Dec 6th
light graffiti
Dec 6th

BURN

You say that time and money and circumstance are all that’s stopping you from finding your...
Dec 6th
abandoned-deserted-home (via CMYKaboom!)
Dec 6th
Psh. Nothing ever ends.
Dec 6th

co-conspirators,

while my day was certainly not the worst, it was equally not the best. It is, however, very much on...
Dec 6th
“Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within.”
— (via rhea137)
Dec 6th
caldaean: gatekeeper: (via midnightlunacy)
Dec 6th
spiritguide: I can’t even express to you how huge this...
Dec 6th
“Unless we remember, we cannot understand.”
— E M Forster // aspects of the...
Dec 6th
“Meaningless work not overwork wears us down, saps our...”
— (via labellevie) (via...
Dec 6th
(via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
Dec 6th
spiritguide: By the light of the silvery moon (via jah~)
Dec 6th
(via etiamsi)
Dec 6th
“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the...”
— Solomon Short (via lo-in-sojo)...
Dec 6th
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that...”
— Tyler, Fight Club
Dec 6th
“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give...”
— Diana Ross
Dec 6th
Last exile - Sylvain Lagarde
Dec 6th
“The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter… if...”
— Woody Allen
Dec 6th
Adèle H - Mirabilia Images
Dec 6th
“You can’t manage knowledge — nobody can. What you can...”
— Chris Collison and Geoff...
Dec 6th
view from fortress Sudak - Ptashka Ptashka
Dec 6th
il maestrale all’alba - Luca Lacche
Dec 6th
“If you love yourself others will hate you, if you humble...”
— unknown
Dec 6th
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us...”
— Eugène Ionesco
Dec 6th
the quiet day - Jason Lavengood
Dec 6th
Dec 6th
A Dying Star (NGC 6302)
Dec 6th
“Still, for the first time in our lives, we would have been...”
— Greg Egan
Dec 6th
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I...”
— Robert McCloskey
Dec 6th
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas - Thorsten Jankowski
Dec 6th
“I actually love Catholicism, it’s my favourite form of...”
— Stewart Lee
Dec 6th
Moonriver - Alberto Llamazares
Dec 6th
Cropped Hair - Andreas Heumann
Dec 6th
“I have never let my schooling get in the way of my...”
— Mark Twain
Dec 6th
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary...”
— Epicurus
Dec 6th
“If you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, march...”
— Unknown (via...
Dec 6th
“Every song ends. Is that a reason not to enjoy the music?”
— Anonymous (via xixidu)
Dec 6th
spiritguide: Mt.Fuji Polar Star Trails (via reonides)
Dec 6th
“There is little difference in people, but that little...”
— W. Clement Stone
Dec 6th
“You don’t get very far in life without having to be...”
— Ysabella Brave
Dec 5th
Eliza Sys by David Bellemére
Dec 5th