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"JE T'AIME PLUS QU'HIER MOINS QUE DEMAIN" means "I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow."

I find that to be incredibly cool.

Happy New Year, Everyone! <3

I love these words. (And yes, they do remind me of HB)   Thanks,
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your ( Read more... )

Though under earth and throneless now I be,
Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me.

This random snatch of poetry brought to you by where my mind goes when preparing for sleep, and The Silver Chair.

"I say," said Edmond, "I suppose it is all right?  I mean, you can beat him?"
"That's what I'm fighting him to find out," said Peter.

My favorite lines in the book were not in the movie, but I thought I'd put them in the LJ anyway.  Some spoiler-free warning and speculation for the F-List today, all.

If and when you go to see Prince Caspian, make ( Read more... )

Picked up 'The Week,' today and flipped through to their quotes page.  As always, it is full of gold.

"How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception."
-French author Alfred de Musset

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton

"If you do not understand a man, you cannot crush him ( Read more... )

Was going through some quotes while cleaning and came upon my favorite Tennyson poem:

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

I love that poem. *happy*

After 26 years, matzoh still tastes just as bad as the first time you start to dislike it at age eight.

In other news, I have discovered, to my great delight, that Autumn Wheat by Kashi has no leaven.  That means I get to eat breakfast which is not yogurt or eggs or matzoh.  This is VERY EXCITING.

Also, my dad said something today that I thought ( Read more... )

"Songs carry waves.  They're surrounded by all sorts of memories.  Music is one of the most fundamental memories we have.  It's rhythmic, so it's located in the body.  And that means that we carry it everywhere and we remember it  from our very early youth.  So, in trying to come to terms with our lives...the songs that accompanied us...from that ( Read more... )