après moi, le déluge

Joseph | Libra | 23

[philosophybits]

“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[petaltexturedskies]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[dafancyuhinspiration]

[mmaisonnnn]

[cheshmenoor]

[pedestriansteppers]

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé, featured in A Love Story In Letters

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson wr. c. October 1904, from The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[wetheurban]

What a privilege to outgrow the version of you that settled for less than you deserved.

[achillesinhighheels]

To love someone is to attend a thousand births of who they're becoming

[lunamonchtuna]

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva (via lunamonchtuna)

[adel-i]

[j-h-s]

[scorpionlafemme]

[heartpeacenquiet]

art: Anastasia Trusova

[academic-vampire]

I am so thankful that books & reading exist