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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.

obsessed with her vibe

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: Everything in me tends to go on to become something else. My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while…

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

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

Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

“I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.”

— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance

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

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

Fyodor Dostoevsky //Jean-Paul Sartre

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Manhattan is a Lenape Word, Natalie Diaz | Winter Without You, Sarah Kay 

[ Text ID: It is December and we must be brave. / It is December and nobody asked if I was ready. ] 

starting to think the amount of sleep you get has an impact on how much energy you have the next day. i’ll investigate more and get back to you

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

seeing that dostoyevsky quote circulated as a tumblr deep quote that’s like “your worst sin is you have destroyed yourself for nothing” or whatever annoys me to no end bc 1) context is raskolnikov telling sonya that her trauma of being forced into prostitution to keep her family from starving is worth nothing because she will never save them which is kind of a thesis the book disproves over and over again as its main theme and 2) that’s rich coming from someone who axe murdered two women because he didn’t leave the house for a few weeks and came up with a theory that said it was ok actually

raskolnikov would do numbers on tumblr

Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold // by georges bataille, literature and evil (1957, tr. Alastair Hamilton) // The glass essay, Anne Carson

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)

brat summer is OVER

time for DEAD POETS SOCIETY AUTUMN

just saw this on pinterest and it hit me like a truck

wouldn’t it be nice if we were older then we wouldn’t have to wait so long?and wouldn’t it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong? you know it’s gonna make it that much better, when we can say goodnight and stay together. wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up in the morning when the day is new? and after having spent the day together hold each other close the whole night through?

"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."

–Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

— October 16, 1921 / Franz Kafka diaries

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels … are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love… . There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel, I try to live my life.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends