“learning To Learn And Feeling Like You’re Starting From Scratch Is Something You Do Again And Again

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

Sylvia Plath

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

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I sleep, I sleep / too long,”

— Olga Broumas, Beginning with O; “Sleeping Beauty”

“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

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

“What is bad for the heart is good for the art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.”

— Jandy Nelson