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artmonia: Replaceface.

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:29:07 -0500

Replaceface.

Activity of mind, I think, is the only thing that keeps one’s...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:44:58 -0500

Activity of mind, I think, is the only thing that keeps one’s life going, unless one has a larger emotional activity of some other kind. One’s mind that’s like a restless steamer paddle urging the ship along, tho’ the wind is non-existent and the sea is as still as glass. What a force a human being is! There are worse solitudes than drift ice, and yet this eternal throbbing heat and energy of one’s mind thaws a pathway through; and open sea and land shall come in time. Think though, what man is midst fields and woods. A solitary creature dependent on winds and tides, and yet somehow suppressing the might of a spark in his brain. What nonsense to write!

Virginia Woolf, The Early Journals, 1897 - 1909.

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:18:22 -0500

As long as she lived that ecstasy was going to be hers. She...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:51:49 -0500

As long as she lived that ecstasy was going to be hers. She would live for it, work for it, die for it; but she was going to have it, time after time, height after height. She could hear the crash of the orchestra again, and she rose on the brasses. She would have it, what the trumpets were singing! She would have it, have it – it!

(via operaswag)

But the books are the things that I enjoy — on the whole — most....

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:49:44 -0500

But the books are the things that I enjoy — on the whole — most. I feel sometimes for hours together as though the physical stuff of my brain were expanding, larger and larger, throbbing quicker and quicker with new blood — and there is no more delicious sensation than this.

Virginia Woolf, The Early Journals 1897 - 1906.

Ambition, especially applied to women, has a negative...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:30:17 -0500

Ambition, especially applied to women, has a negative connotation. It implies that you’re willing to step on other people, which is definitely not the truth. It’s perceived as unfeminine. We’re supposed to say, ‘Oh, it just happened to me. I’m so lucky.

Renée Fleming

Petition to get the Met to release Der Rosenkavalier on DVD (with Fleming, Graham, Schaefer)

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:19:08 -0500

Petition to get the Met to release Der Rosenkavalier on DVD (with Fleming, Graham, Schaefer):

operaswag:

You don’t even have to list your last name. I just did an initial.

GO SIGN IT!!!!

auntiespaz: operaswag: Bess requested this. For all future...

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:22:09 -0400

auntiespaz:

operaswag:

Bess requested this. For all future “da fuq is wrong with you” reactions.

This is so perfect. I think I’m going to start going through my youtube vids…you may have some requests coming your way…

She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:32:08 -0400

She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a smile of warmth and delight — a smile that said, “I’m yours for the asking; I’m won.” It was not a smile that undervalued herself, because through its beauty it spoke for both of them, expressed all the potential joy that existed between them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emotional Bankruptcy

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Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:46:57 -0400

“The best is yet to be.” - Robert Browning

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:22:17 -0400

“The best is yet to be.”

- Robert Browning

“The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:51:40 -0400

“The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.”

- Maxwell Maltz

gameandwatch: i remember way too many small details about people so i have to act dumb sometimes so...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:11:06 -0400

gameandwatch:

i remember way too many small details about people so i have to act dumb sometimes so i don’t freak them out

Flicka, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Jake Heggie dance their asses...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:04:07 -0400

Flicka, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Jake Heggie dance their asses off while Joyce DiDonato sings Non Più Mesta (x)

“There it was before her - her life. Life; she thought but she...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 08:00:39 -0400

“There it was before her - her life. Life; she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side and life was on another.”

—Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

“Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:52:48 -0400

“Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.”

- Walter Scott

“Now is all there is”Opera Little Women

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:10:32 -0400

“Now is all there is”
Opera Little Women

“The greatest achievement is to outperform...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:55:48 -0400

“The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.”

- Denis Waitley

“The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:53:20 -0400

“The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.”

- Ward Jenkins

“We’re all amazing people; we never know anything about each...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:18:44 -0400

“We’re all amazing people; we never know anything about each other.”

— David Blunkett