“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)
Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟: vanilla macarons, soft rain, oversized blazers & cashmere cardigans, cinnamon scented candles, velvet hair ribbons, spending nights by the fireplace
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
— Mother Teresa
“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”
— Euripides, Medea
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
2020, a summary
“My tenderest kisses, beloved little being — I dreamt about you.”
— Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), in a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Friday [7 July 1939], Amiens, in “Letters To Sartre”, translated by Quintin Hoare