La Pureté Est Absolument Invulnérable En Tant Que Pureté (...). Mais Elle Est éminemment Vulnérable

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, describing Lou Andreas-Salomé, from a letter to Paul Rée written c. September 1879 (via violentwavesofemotion)

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

Portugese

ne·fe·li·ba·ta

/nefilēbätä/ 

noun a cloud walker; an individual who lives in the “clouds” of her own imagination or dreams. 

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems