Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946)

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918

as soon as you feel the summer melancholy creep in on you and your brain is telling you to rot in bed BITCH NO you just need to swim in a lake and dry in the sun

Anaïs Nin, from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)