Elysium

'The basis of optimism is sheer terror.'

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: συναστρέω (sunastreō), to be born under the same star

[mydailybookquotes]

“Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can’t read anymore, write.”

-James Baldwin

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

me: it was just a dream

me (internally): .. or prophecy ..

[exhaled-spirals]

« I learned recently that humans glow faintly, even during the day. All living creatures do, apparently. In recent years, scientists have been trying to discern if and, if so, why our bodies emit a varying visible light. In a study published in 2009, five healthy, bare-chested young Japanese men were placed in dark rooms sealed to keep light out, for twenty-minute intervals every three hours for three days. They were only allowed to sleep from midnight to 7am. A highly sensitive imaging system found that all of the men glowed, most strongly from the face, at levels that dropped and climbed during the day. Yes, it’s a small sample size, and the study does not seem to have been repeated, but it’s a delicious thought. The authors of the study, Masaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Kikuchi and Hitoshi Okamura, concluded that we all ‘directly and rhythmically’ emit light: ‘The human body literally glimmers. The intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes.’ »

— Julia Baird, Phosphorescence

[wildestically]

“I saw then at once that what is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.”

— Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in a letter later published under the title ‘De Profundis’ - January-March, 1897.

[design-art-architecture]

Museo Capitolino Rome Via @antoniopedrophotography

[soracities]

the sheer amount of quiet i need in order to be able to function as a person is ridiculous

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

Girlhood is just a long eternity of wanting to escape but not knowing what to escape from

[sunsetquotes]

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Gently, dreamily, quietly.”

— John Masefield, from The Collected Poems; “Sorrow of my Death,”

[ameliecozy]

Instagram: peculiarwhispers

[obscurelittlebird]

Some of ya’ll haven’t almost married a guy who secretly had his wife in the attic and it shows.

[carpenoctem1897]

[the-book-diaries]

“These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.”

— David Nicholls, One Day

[romcommunist]

i overthink….therefore….i overam….

[ofthelostandfound-deactivated20]

i shouldn't be using mobile applications but daily i fall into their heinous trap

[stolespring]