“Someone, Somewhere, Can You Understand Me A Little, Love Me A Little?”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“I am in a quiet way blooming.”

— May Sarton, Recovering: A Journal

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

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

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

—

Anton Chekhov (b. 29 January 1860)

Adonis, from “Persons”, Selected Poems

Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “An Afterthought”

Text ID: Sure she kept one part of Eden / Angels could not strip her of.

“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)

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)