Marina Tsvetaeva, From Poem Of The End: V (tr. By Elaine Feinstein)

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

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Anton Chekhov (b. 29 January 1860)

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“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

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

or·phic

/ˈôrfik/

adjective mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic