Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady

“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”

— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush”

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse