Bande à part (1964), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Stop waiting to feel ready. Ready is not a feeling, it’s a decision.
The Sacrifice (1986) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.
E.E. Scott
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
A Hora da Estrela (1985) dir. Suzana Amaral
I rather be understood than have your love, because what is love if you don’t understand my soul..
Traci Brimhall, from her poem titled "Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It,"
Coffee & art 🎨☕
Still lives in sepia tones — where scent, structure, and slow thinking trace the contours of a modern mind.
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka
when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’
Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
i don’t want to do anything else but love you
someone said, “the reason you isolate when you’re struggling is because you were left alone as a child to deal with your emotions” and i felt that
The Beast to Die (1980)