— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters To Vera

“…One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

— Hamlet (Hamlet, Act I scene v)

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

E. E SCOTT

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait tr. by Carlos Fuentes

[ID: There is nothing absolute / Everything changes, everything / moves, everything re- / volves - everything / flies and goes away.]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

Sylvia Plath