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