Ad astra, ad meliora.

She/her・xxiii・aries・classics student・ literature, art, poetry, history

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The Birth of Venus (detail) by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) oil on canvas, 1879

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I can’t make you understand. I can’t make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I can’t even explain it to myself.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via resqectable)

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—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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James Sant’s Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle (1850)

[shisasan]

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská (Prague, September 14, 1920)

[kafkasdiariies]

Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicilia, Italia | cappuccinointheclouds

[linkinmoon]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[metamorphesque]

― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

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— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from letters to Natalie Paley

[text ID: Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence.]

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[orpheuslament]

A Savage Garden, Dante Émile. From WELL-LOVED BLOOD.

[happyheidi]

the moon in paintings. x

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— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Seam: ‘Interviewer’s Note IV’ by Tarfia Faizullah

[mashamorevna]

“Why was I waiting for you? Hungering and thirsting for you in every cranny of my soul and even in my ribs?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov. (via xshayarsha)

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