“Think new things every day.”
— Democritus, Fragments, B158
“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via drearydoll)
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
— Anne Frank
Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”
From @sacredmoonadornments
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier (b. 17 December 1807)
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait tr. by Carlos Fuentes
[ID: There is nothing absolute / Everything changes, everything / moves, everything re- / volves - everything / flies and goes away.]
“Elle s'éveillait comme d'un songe, elle naissait à la passion.”
— Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
― Emily Dickinson
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
— Franz Kafka