@aneid / Sydney Smith / Unknown / @bakwaaas / @nutnoce / @dearestvita

I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel for me. I think I shall be the kind of person that nobody understands,

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

'You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.'

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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

Sergei Efron, from a letter to Max Voloshin, referring to Marina Tsvetaeva, featured in Earthly Signs, Moscow Diaries

I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of imagination - what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

- John Keats

hearing Americans speak in real life is so jarring omfg... Get back in the TV right now

La Proie du vent (1927)

Sarah Perry, The Essence of Peopling