April 2012
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“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via worn-in-perfection)
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February 2012
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of...”
– Stephen Hawking (via starrchild)
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Skúffuskáld is an Icelandic word which describes someone who is secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but puts it all into a desk drawer instead of sharing it with other people.
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January 2012
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“Self-conscious people’s oversensitivity to real humans tend to put us before the...”
– David Foster Wallace in E Unibus Pluram - Television and U.S. Fiction
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“If in everyday life, you are asked about continued existence after death by one...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via sunrec)
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