Languageenfleur - Ominous Or Premonitory?

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

“I do understand—and it is terrible.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1915, featured in “Letters to Felice,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

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

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

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“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

— Leo Tolstoy (1847-1910), Anna Karenina

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)