“The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing.”
— Edvard Munch, circa 1930.
WAVES (2019) dir. Trey Edward Shults
Marilyn Monroe / during production of Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)
Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes
“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”
— Charles Reznikoff, from, “Autobiography: New York,” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, ed. Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press, 2005)
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (via neckkiss)
nostos: il ritorno (1989) dir. franco piavoli
“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”
— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (via luthienne)