Ginger

Literature and visuals

[transparent-flowers]

Great Mormon Papilio memnon found in Malaysia. (x).

[oldmoonlullaby]

moths are precious

[jepsolell]

Searching the light (en Château de Versailles)

[rosenaufsuden-deactivated202003]

a medieval view from my window, adorned by café and ancient laws that once ruled kingdoms from centuries ago.

ig: rosenaufsuden

[meshimellow-deactivated20200617]

Still love this comic series ❤️

[zeilenspruenge]

“Es gibt Wörter, die machen mit mir, was sie wollen. Sie sind ganz anders als ich und denken anders, als sie sind. Sie fallen mir ein, damit ich denke, es gibt erste Dinge, die das Zweite schon wollen. Auch wenn ich das gar nicht will.”

— Herta Müller - Atemschaukel

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Herta Müller (b. 1953) is a German writer of Romanian origin, who in 2009 received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work is usually set in communist Romania and deals with the terror and repression of Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship, seen from the point of view of the country’s considerable German minority.

Along with the most important Nobel Prize, her work has received dozens of international literary awards and has been translated in more than twenty languages.

[upflyingwords]

“I’m always telling myself I don’t have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I’m only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It’s not that I’m stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I’m weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I’m more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn’t cry, that doesn’t dwell on homesickness.”

— Herta Muller, The Hunger Angel

[renejoshua-deactivated20210320]

“I carry silent baggage. I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.”

—

Herta Müller, Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)

[sun-death]

“It is wrong to pretend that human beings are unique, that they carry within them an irreplaceable individuality; as far as I was concerned, at any rate, I could not distinguish any trace of such an individuality. As often as not it is futile to wear yourself out trying to distinguish individual destinies and personalities. When all’s said and done, the idea of the uniqueness of the individual is nothing more than pompous absurdity. We remember our own lives, Schopenhauer wrote somewhere, a little better than a novel we once read. That’s about right: a little, no more.”

— Michel Houellebecq, Platform

[eightysevens]

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

— Saul Bellow; Ravelstein 

[quotespile]

“A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.”

— Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

[scandireader]

The former owner of this book was a certain susan green in 1984. I wonder where she read it and what she thought of it

[thezeroquotes]

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.” - Michel de Montaigne, Essais

[stay-close]

So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

— Haruki Murakami

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

–Walt Whitman