“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
Othello, William Shakespeare
“One morning this sadness will fossilize
And I will forget how to cry
I'll keep going to work and you won't see a change
Save perhaps a slight gray in my eye”
Painting: Automat by Edward Hopper, 1927
Song: Fireworks, Mitski
"Your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need."
R. M. Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet
the weekends are for an all-consuming yearning
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sylvia Plath // Fyodor Dostoyevsky
this post is so significant to me i cannot explain it
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath