“There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.” Guy Finley
oliasaunders.art
you, who opened suns in my heart,
14.09.
it was misty this morning. reminded me a lot of ‘Death in Venice’
Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre by Hubert Robert.
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” - Clarice Lispector
rainy day in paris // 2019
Charles Macaulay
The secret history
There is another world
But it is made inside this one
She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History