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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via lavandula)
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Laura Marling and Ryan Adams perform Oh My Sweet Carolina at the Abbey Road studios, Nov 2011.
I could watch this a dozen times every day and never get sick of it.
The Fault in Our Stars // John Green
Parisian Chic // Ines de La Fressange
Frank Sinatra Has A Cold // Gay Talese
The Marriage Plot // Jeffrey Eugenides
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) // Mindy Kaling
in my quest to live in paris for at least a month later this year, I am studiously learning how to wear a scarf, Parisian-style. These Liberty London videos are beyond brilliant (and the LL saleswoman has an accent to die for)
View Larger love a good collared-shirt-peeking-out-from-underneath-a-jumper look, and I’m so inspired by how this delightful Italian lass has combined different shades of blue with yellow.
via The Satorialist
Hemmingway wrote these rules of life when he was 18… (via The Happiness Project)
1. Get up early (five o’clock)
2. Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock)
3. Eat little and avoid sweets
4. Try to do everything by yourself
5. Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period, and a goal for the year, a goal for every month, a goal for every week, for every hour and a goal for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater.
6. Keep away from women
7. Kill desire by work
8. Be good, but try to let no one know it
9. Always live less expensively than you might
10. Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer
I like to get up early but laze in bed until eight o’clock; and work from midday until seven o’clock, so I will have to eschew #1 and #2. And #3! I could agree to eat very little if all I could eat was sweets.
I really like rules #5 and #8 though.
View Larger i have used Joy’s cinnamon bread recipe many, many times and without fail. It’s a bit time consuming but tucking into this load of sugary-spicy goodness with a pot of tea on a rainy afternoon is one of the best experiences in the world.
via Joy The Baker
View Larger one of my favourite ever interviews on Emily Weiss’ beauty blog, In The Gloss.
I hope Kerry Diamond realises she’s just sent me broke. I want, I need…
View Larger Love this, speshly the ‘people I’ve met and how they’ve proceeded to disappoint me’. notebook. oh yeah. i hear ya.
kudos to my favourite blogger, the enviable Joanna Goddard, for posting a cheese plate how-to-guide. puts my ritz crackers to SHAME
