Martha Gellhorn, From A Letter To David Gurewitsch Featured In The Selected Letters Of Martha Gellhorn

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Nizar Qabbani // Franz Kafka

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

— V, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

I woke up from a nightmare, but it still seemed better than reality.

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn