Voyage of Despair

sentimentalist ✞

[thesobsister]

Dan Hillier, Ground (2020)

[shisasan]

A month of mental apathy,  July 1, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[philosophybits]

“If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.”

— Voltaire, Candide

[thirdity]

“The idea that history might have copied history is mind-boggling enough; that history should copy literature is inconceivable.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero”

[shisasan]

June 18, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3] [ID: Date — 18 June 1924. Text — Everywhere I see the marks of my passionate interest in those worldly things, and now I wish I had loved them less, that I might leave them with a lighter heart. END ID]

[nobrashfestivity]

Man Ray Sea Star 1928

[philosophybits]

“If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[shisasan]

18 June, 1926 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941) [ID: Date — 18 June 1926. Text — God, how it rains — I do wish you were here. END ID]

[shisasan]

they should invent one lifetime for living and another for reading

[exsomnambulo]

"The more dust I removed, the more these shadows grew."

— Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

[jakobhetzer]

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[toiich]

Laurence Anyways (2012), dir. Xavier Dolan

[philosophybits]

“The strong thinker, the man overflowing with intellectual life, naturally seeks to diffuse his ideas. There is no pleasure in thinking unless the thought is communicated to others.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[odetopictorialism]

Albert Walter Witzel • Melva Cornell, 1930

[quotespile]

“From the moment we met, I was a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, NP

[shisasan]

7 June 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov