gentle reminder: nothing in this world has the power to take away your worth. not what's been done to you, not the mistakes you've made, not the things you've failed to do, not the assertions other people make. you are breathing. you are alive. you are a person. nothing else is needed to give you value.
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched
by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks
back to its former dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.
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subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900
Stop constantly burning the candle at both ends , or you will eventually be reduced to ashes.
Christine E. Szymanski.
"i can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
isaac newton
“My ingenious fingers wait when they have found
The petal flesh beneath the robe they part.
How curious, complex, the touch, this subtle art–
As the dream of fragrance, the miracle of sound.”
[Natalie Clifford Barney published ‘Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes’, a book of lesbian poetry about love. Her father found out about this and bought the ones that were left to have them burnt.
A few years later, Renée Vivien (a lover of Barney’s) wrote her own lesbian poetry and had it published— ‘The Muse of the Violets: Poems’]
March, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]
the betrayal knows my name (2010)