April 2011
35 posts
March 2011
59 posts
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought,...”
– Frida Kahlo
“French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that,...”
– Emmanuelle Alt
“Asleep you don’t feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you...”
– Flowers in the Attic
French words with no English translation →
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur: As defined in the book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, it’s “the...
"When The Fairy Tale Ends, Real Life Begins"
caseylonergan:
This is one of the most amazing thing’s Ive seen on Tumblr.
“So many fail because they don’t get started - they don’t go. They don’t overcome...”
– W. Clement Stone
“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
– Edgar Allen Poe
