Martin Buxbaum

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)

“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”

— Henry James (via quotemadness)

“The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall (via the-book-diaries)

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- Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Anti-Elegy"

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !