There's Something About Dostoyevsky Characters Suddenly Bursting Into Tears That Just Hits Different

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

I am not meant for casual love. I was born for soul consuming love and obsession.

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

“They were only speaking the part of god that they themselves could glimpse. And this truth was only as small as they themselves were small.”

— Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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.

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken