January 2012
5 posts
“…if they should ever lose moral feeling, the sons of modest families that know...”
– Human, All Too Human, Part I by Nietzsche (via thedailynietzsche)
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead,...”
– Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu [lit. In search of lost time, trans. as Remembrance of Things Past] (vol. I, Swann’s Way) (1913) (trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin)
“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not...”
– Michel Foucault (via madkingsweeny)
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
July 2011
11 posts
June 2011
5 posts
Watchpurvipatel:
A video of my evening roof jaunt. It’s not really sticking to the rules of my photo project, but it gives you some sights and sounds of kabul. I spend most of my late afternoons and evenings reading and reflecting on my balcony. It’s literally bigger than my room and I’m able to people watch on my terms. Most days I wear tshirts when I’m on my balcony, its my way of sticking it to...
“And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill— pain emerges as the natural product and...”
– Jonathan Franzen (via purvipatel)
May 2011
1 post
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that...”
– Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago (via featheredthimble)
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
9 posts
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via enchanting)
October 2010
1 post
“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...”
– Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (via miraculouslyunlame)
September 2010
5 posts
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
4 posts
