“To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things; the past reborn in the overflow of fragrances; the smell, through which we conquer time; the contour of the invisible things; the forms of the immaterial; to deepen yourself in the intangible; to touch the world airborne by smell; aerial dialogue and gliding dissolution; to bathe in your own reflecting fragmentation […]”
— Emil Cioran, The Book Of Delusions (via prosetrose-blog)
Anna de Noailles, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; “Dazzled, Precise,”
“god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage me to change the things i can, and wisdom to know the difference”
Tomona Matsukawa - Tonight, was I really with someone?, 2025 - Oil on canvas
mouy for paloma wool
Sade: Love Deluxe (1992)
Thank you for smoking!