the curiosity cabinet
May 2011
74 posts
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”
—John Steinbeck, New York Times, June 2, 1969 (via bookoasis)
“Why is it we so love the strong emotions? I think because they give us such a keen sense of Life—a violent belief in our Existence. One thing I cannot bear and that is the mediocre—I like always to have a great grip of Life, so that I intensify the so-called small things—so that truly everything is significant.”
—Katherine Mansfield
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre (via foudre)
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahfitzgerald)
