“If By Romantic They Mean Someone Who Dreams, I Am A Romantic, But I Shall Keep My Crown Of Dreams

“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”

—Daybreak, §412 (edited).

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

“My tenderest kisses, beloved little being — I dreamt about you.”

— Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), in a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980),  Friday [7 July 1939], Amiens, in “Letters To Sartre”, translated by Quintin Hoare

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”