Turn and face the strange.

Melissa, 22, Brazil. Literature, film and art lover.

[julykings]

how do you mend a relationship with yourself? / insta

[eliminated]

[love]

by Louise Markise

[ps1]

[macrolit]

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”

— Joyce Carol Oates (born on this day in 1938)

[neckkiss]

Trainspotting

[feral-ballad]

I thought I had been surviving, and yet, what I was really doing was hanging by a string, loosely holding myself from collapsing. I was always on the verge, and I could feel that friction in my soul.

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

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[allthingseurope]

Cabo de Roca, Portugal (by Polina)

[primulaceas]

Marge Piercy, “When a Friend Dies.” The Moon Is Always Female

[mournfulroses]

May Sarton, from her book titled "May Sarton: A Self-Portrait," originally published in 1978

[nature-travel-photography]

Grindelwald, Switzerland - Author: imscarlettmoon

[breathtakingdestinations]

Edinburgh - Scotland (by Catherine Poh Huay Tan)

[poetrydystopian]

[lunamonchtuna]

— Jean-Paul Sartre, from The Flies (tr. by Stuart Gilbert & Lionel Abel), 1943 (via lunamonchtuna)

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— Thomas Hardy, from “Far From the Madding Crowd.”

[kaijuno]

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