/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/
adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love.
“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”
— Leo Tolstoy (1847-1910), Anna Karenina
Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida
“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”
— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)
“Think new things every day.”
— Democritus, Fragments, B158
“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929
Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022
i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic
Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally published 1802]
Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”