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Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“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  (via quotemadness)

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu  (via quotemadness)

T.S. Eliot, from “III. The Fire Sermon”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Andrée Chedid, from “Terre et Poésie,” quoted in Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (edited by Kamal Boullata).

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟: vanilla macarons, soft rain, oversized blazers & cashmere cardigans, cinnamon scented candles, velvet hair ribbons, spending nights by the fireplace

“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).

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

“I sleep, I sleep / too long,”

— Olga Broumas, Beginning with O; “Sleeping Beauty”

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V (tr. by Elaine Feinstein)

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)

“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”

— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

“And though my love did not leave, it went down into deeper darker places.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir (Canongate, 2019)