“You Keep Waiting For The Moral Of Your Life To Become Obvious, But It Never Does. Work, Work, Work:

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

- Ivan Turgenev

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939

Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold // by georges bataille, literature and evil (1957, tr. Alastair Hamilton) // The glass essay, Anne Carson

Dostoevsky is one of those writers who, after showing you your fragmental vileness and natural disfigurement, teach you why you need to learn to love yourself.

brat summer is OVER

time for DEAD POETS SOCIETY AUTUMN

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: I myself keep my emptiness inside of me, and this certainty that I am alone, that nothing can satisfy me, that my happiness will have to be willed so strongly, so severely that it will be more of a fatigue than a peace.

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