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Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”

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.]

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

— Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

2020, a summary

“…One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

— Hamlet (Hamlet, Act I scene v)

“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”

— Euripides, Medea

“I have been woman for a long tine beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic”

— Audre Lorde, from her porm “A Woman speaks”

“But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of the soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star.

“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”

— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

September 22. Nothing.

Franz Kafka - Diaries 1914-1923 (Allegedly)

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

mary oliver, the pond

“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”

— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida

Joy Ladin, from “Forgetting“

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

Do today what everyone else will do tomorrow. — Jean Cocteau, French poet

“Aphrodite, the queen of the senses, she, born of the sea-foam, is the luminousness of the gleaming senses, the phosphorescence of the sea, the senses become a conscious aim unto themselves; She is the gleaming darkness, she is the luminous night, she is goddess of destruction,”

— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “The Lemon Gardens,” (via violentwavesofemotion)