“It Was One Of The Best Days Of My Life, A Day During Which I Lived My Life And Didn’t Think About

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush”

“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)

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche