“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Adonis, from Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus
Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”
From @sacredmoonadornments
“But deep inside her she never forgets.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1951-1959)
Alex Dimitrov, from "Love", Love and Other Poems
Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”
— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupére
“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”
-Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923