“Violence Does Not Always Take Visible Form, And Not All Wounds Gush Blood.”

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via the-book-diaries)

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

(Charles Bukowski)

…human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

— Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”

— Albert Camus

“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but it is always the blood of others. That is why some philosophers feel free to say just about anything.”

— Albert Camus, Actuelles I (via philosophybits)

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology