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“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Common Reader: First Series (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“And I feel, sometimes, part of something very great, wholly profound and sweeping.”

— Louise Glück, from A Journal (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“As if a tenderness awoke, a tenderness that did not tire, something healing.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Three Women,” wr. c. March 1962

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“Please come, and bathe me in serenity again.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. December 1926 (via woolfdaily)

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The Blood of a Poet (1931), dir. Jean Cocteau

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“…how I still, sometimes, crave understanding.”

— Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Vilhelm Hammershøi Seated Figure, Seen from Behind, 1884

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Josef Sudek’s Střelecky Island With Legion Bridge & Vltava River, Prague (via here)

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“It is magnificent to stand in infinite solitude on the seashore, beneath an overcast sky, and to look on an endless waste of water. Part of this feeling is the fact that one has made life’s way there and yet must go back, that one would like to cross over but cannot, that one sees nothing to support life and yet senses the voice of life in the sigh of the waves, the murmur of the air, the passing clouds and the lonely cry of birds. Part of this feeling is a claim made by the heart and a rejection, if I may call it that, on the part of nature. But this is impossible in front of the picture, and what I should have found in the picture itself I found only between myself and the picture, namely a claim my heart made on the picture and the picture’s rejection of me; and so I myself became the monk, and the picture became the dune, but the sea itself, on which I should have looked out with longing — the sea was absent…”

Kleist, “Different Feelings about a Seascape by Friedrich on which is a Capuchin Monk”