“With Friends, One Is Well; But At Home, One Is Better.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“Soft and exquisite,”

— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “A Partridge Sky for the Cassia Flower.” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”