writing is my only sunctuary

30 yo Lawyer. The world is so dreadful in many ways. So let us be nice to each other.

[noreasontostayisgoodreasontogo]

[ruhaniya]

[quotefeeling]

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

[nevver]

If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me - Alasdair Wallace

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Let’s try, as you say, to give up that heavy heart we’ve been carrying with us until now. Let’s live. Let’s stop dreaming and imagining the summer—let’s just keep going and try to create a brilliant image of ourselves. Perhaps the happiness stolen from a moment of cheating will one day bring about another form of happiness, one that is deep and true.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Mon Cher Amour, April 28, 1950 [#292]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[pmamtraveller]

Auguste Clesinger, 1849, “Woman Bitten by a Serpent”. Marble sculpture.

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[pmamtraveller]

Cleopatra

[lukdan]

[johnnysilverhandssuitcasenuke]

[mournfulroses]

Izumi Shikibu, from a diary entry featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

[kisxmesoft]

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Albert Camus

[cutebutthole]

[florial]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[aneffervescentuniverse]

...or, we almost did. still, the last sentence remains true. ♡