In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings.
Donna Tartt
late nights in the country house
I want to be someone's muse, the object of someone's desires. I want to be something somebody thinks about all day. I want to be painted on a canvas by a painter, to be written in words by a poet. I want to be the inspiration for somebody's art.
when henry winter said that all he ever wanted to do was live without thinking, i felt it on a profound level
honestly henry winter
might fuck around and only wear tweed, turtlenecks and oxfords, drink worrying amounts of coffee, leave my apartment only to sit in a small cafe and read paperbacks, have a close friendship with underlying homoeroticism,,
Cupid & Psyche by Jacob Matham (1607)
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You became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.
Mahmoud Darwish
23 august. Something is not right. There's a soul on my windowsill.
The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and
Perhaps I romanticize this state of loneliness so much that it becomes too beautiful.
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