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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

My feelings are transparent, dangerously luminous, and they remain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry written c. September 1911

[wordsnquotes]

You’ve such a lovely temperature.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[luthienne]

Have you Blossoms and Books, those solaces of sorrow?

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Charles H. Clark, January 1885

[juliaroselotusviolet]

rose-colored day.

[howitzerliterarysociety-deactiv]

I am in a beastlike place. I find myself growling deep in the throat. I don’t want to talk to anyone. I only want to feel the night around me as I hunt the life I’m after.

(via howitzerliterarysociety)

[oblivion-soave]

For a very long time gadgets and machinery have been anti-people. If one wants to get away from the anti-people component, then you don’t argue technology as much as you argue capitalism.

Ursula Franklin, All Problems Can Be Illuminated; Not All Problems Can Be Solved

[faeswim-blog]

[quotemadness]

I have found it necessary to remain silent.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

[existential-celestial]

I am the pool of blue    That worships the vivid sky;

Sara Teasdale, from “Peace,” in Those Who Love

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Always, always trust your instincts about people.

Jackie Kay, from Wish I Was Here: Stories; “Blinds,”

[luthienne]

…I was not wild, not volcanic, I was rigid and self-protective; the form of my self-protectiveness took was exclusion: that which I feared, I ignored…

Louise Glück, from Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry

[a-state-of-bliss]

Monica Bellucci by Gianpaolo Barbieri

[emauxetcamees]

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary  (via ardeea)

[midnight-charm]

Bella Hadid photographed by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia September 2016

Fashion Editor: Olivier Rizzo Hair: Guido for Redken Makeup: Pat McGrath

[hedonist--poet-deactivated20240]

I don’t really believe in reincarnation, but I know that we have met before. I know our souls aren’t strangers.

Hira (via hedonistpoet)

[macrolit]

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer (born on this day in 1820)

[wnq-music]

Smooth seas don’t make good sailors.

Neck Deep  (via elliejune)