From Loneliness: Coping With The Gap Where Friends Used To Be By Olivia Laing For The Guardian

Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry.  

Simone de Beauvoir, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Sylvia Plath, Clarice Lispector

buy me a coffee

Mary Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

2.3 Brain Drain, Russian Doll (2022) // Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child (detail from The Three Ages of Woman, 1905)

When Oscar Wilde said Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation, and Jorge Luis Borges said I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

David Hamilton - Nina Ricci “Farouche” Perfume Ad (Cosmopolitan 1976)

musings on kisses

― Simone de Beauvoir (Letters to Sartre), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [Le Lit (The Bed), Au lit: le baiser (In Bed: The Kiss)], Indran Amirthanayagam (Kiss), Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt (The Kiss), Sara Teasdale (The Kiss)

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