“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”
—Daybreak, §412 (edited).
“Ne savez-vous point que vous êtes mon soleil pendant le jour et mon étoile pendant la nuit?”
“Know you not that you are my sun by day and my star by night?”
— Alexandre Dumas, La reine Margot
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus
Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks
Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”
From @sacredmoonadornments
“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”
— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)
Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”