Marguerite Duras, From The Lover

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

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

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

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

April 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

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

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet