Princess Of Fair Verona

"These violent delights have violent ends" 🥀

[flowerytale]

Charles Dickens, from “Great Expectations”

[flowerytale]

William Shakespeare, from “Henry V”

[flowerytale]

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

[inksplit]

[qvotable]

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time.”

— Franz Kafka // The Castle

[inksplit]

[imaginmation]

Large emotion

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Sarah Tuckerman (October 1885)

[flowerytale]

Bram Stoker — Dracula

[metamorphesque]

— Oscar Wilde 

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre

[firstfullmoon]

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

[text ID: A lovely September day—tender—]

[starrover]

“September 22. Nothing.”

— Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923 

[philosophybits]

“It is a mistake to classify the passions as lawful and unlawful, so as to yield to the one and refuse the other. All alike are good if we are their masters; all alike are bad if we abandon ourselves to them.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

[paper-fairy]

“Your kiss,– those hands, those eyes divine,”

— John Keats, from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters; “To Fanny,”

[quotemadness]

“A person hears only what they understand.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[flowerytale]

Patti Smith, from “Year of the Monkey”