At The End Of A Relationship, It Is The One Who Is Not In Love That Makes The Tender Speeches.

Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451 (via the-book-diaries)

“Let it stand. Let the whole damned thing stand, for better or worse. Don’t go back and rewrite, trying to make a masterpiece out of everything. Leave it alone. Leave it the fuck alone.”

Anne Sexton, from an interview conducted c. June 1974

“We are only here today not because what does not kill us makes us stronger, but because what does not kill us does not kill us.”

— Sam Sax, “Miracles"

Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

(Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death–these are the things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual to individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all.”

Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”

— Lemony Snicket // The Carnivorous Carnival

Jack Gilbert, from “Before Morning in Perugia”, Collected Poems

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (via the-book-diaries)

March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

(Ivan Turgenev)