Takuboku Ishikawa, From A Diary Entry Featured In Romaji Diary And Sad Toys

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier.”

— Douglas Coupland, Player One

Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

— October 16, 1921 / Franz Kafka diaries

26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov

Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

have u guys seen the actual unedited bunker pictures

I’ll never not sob over these 2 shots.

there's something about Dostoyevsky characters suddenly bursting into tears that just hits different

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939