pearlescent

justine. xxviii. europe “i live; i die; the sea comes over me; it’s the blue that lasts”

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Where You Begin,"

[04k96]

Via

[oncce-againn]

it surprises me, sometimes, how deeply i crave being understood.

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[bookstofilms]

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright, adapted from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[flowersofzephyr]

Do not fall in love with me I will leave such an imprint on your heart that anyone you entertain after me will have to know me in order to understand you

[mournfulroses]

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

[04k96]

[oncce-againn]

if you can't give me honesty, you can't give me anything.

[mournfulroses]

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

[alexhidalgu]

[eymurn]

going on a walk will save you again and again and again and again and

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[parsabad]

Luxury Qajari Carpet/ Golestan Palace/ Tehran

[paper-fairy]

Jane Austen, Emma - Chapter IV

[lokihiddleston]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)