May 2012
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via theformofbeauty)
1 tag
2 tags
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not...”
– Egon Schiele (via frenchtwist)
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“The greatest fortune that can befall an author is not to be read, a painter not...”
– Paul Klee, explaining to a writer the benefits of not being read, from Giovanni Orelli’s Walaschek’s Dream (trans. by Jamie Richards). (via writersnoonereads)
2 tags
1 tag
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via nirvikalpa)
“Only one thing remains infinitely fascinating to me: the mystery of moods. To be...”
– Oscar Wilde (via kaffeochblod)
“What an overwhelming lesson to all artists! Be not afraid of absurdity; do not...”
– Isak Dinesen, “The Deluge at Nordenay” (via James Reese Books)
1 tag
