“I’m Not Sentimental — I’m As Romantic As You Are. The Idea, You Know, Is That The Sentimental

I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Sage Francis

— Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”, from Glass, Irony and God

Thief (1981), dir. Michael Mann

“Some things are holy enough that they deserve to only be done well. Love, cello, forgiveness.”

— Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

“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"

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)

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.”

— Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Eyes Wide Shut (1999), dir. Stanley Kubrick

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