March 2013
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the dead outnumber the living →
There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Reference Bureau estimates that about 107 billion people have ever lived.
This means that we are nowhere near close to having more alive than dead. In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living. We surpassed seven billion dead way back between 8000BC and AD1.
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February 2013
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“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am,...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via diluvie)
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DUSK AND DAWN: Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers →
eulum:
Ernest Hemingway: Salt water, rum, coconut and lime, cigar smoke, Spanish wine;
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gin, citrus, oak (prep school, amirite), in a champagne-flute shaped bottle with gold flecks in it;
Jane Austen: Darjeeling tea, snowdrops and pansies (flowers from her garden), meadow…
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January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He...”
– Milená Jesenská (1896 - 1944), from her obituary to Franz Kafka (via mirroir)
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October 2012
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“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the...”
– H. G. Wells (War Of The Worlds)
September 2012
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“There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.”
– John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath 