“I sit here on the perfect end of a star, watching light pour itself toward me.”
— Richard Brautigan, “Star Hole” (via oofpoetry)
“The days are long and weigh on me. I am suffocating.”
— Albert Camus, from a letter featured in “A Life Worth Living,” c. 1940
“She was also very beautiful, ethereal, transparent. Everything material seemed destroyed in her.”
— Gabriella Fiori, from Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography
“I literally choke with the need to see you — it shakes me to the core.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre featured in Letters To Sartre
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“I have given myself permission to be // a monster in little ways.”
— Anna Meister, from As If
“Don’t forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”
— Charles de Lint
