[thelonerforlife]

έρημία

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[thelonerforlife]

Kristina Kikhno

[macrolit]

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.”

— The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

[ghostlypetal]

[thelonerforlife]

Julie van der Vaart

[finita--la--commedia]

“And how do we know that we exist if we do not suffer, little or much ? How can we turn upon ourselves, acquire reflective consciousness, save by suffering ? When we enjoy ourselves we forget ourselves, forget that we exist; we pass over into another, an alien being, we alienate ourselves. And we become centred in ourselves again, we return to ourselves, only by suffering.”

— Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936), from “Love, suffering, pity, and personality” in “The Tragic Sense of Life”, translated from the Spanish by J.E. Crawford Flitch 

[petaltexturedskies]

I've never been afraid of loneliness because l've never felt the need to justify my feelings to myself. I accept the muteness of feeling too. I have huge respect for my own silence. I let it speak. I allow time to do its trick and lead me back to myself. I don't want just anyone to share life and myself with me. But I want life. Life, at all cost. And I want to feel wanted, needed and loved by someone as alive in spirit as me.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. V: 1947-1955

[soracities]

“I’m alive. Like a wound–”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[brittsekland]

Marianne Faithfull by Gered Mankowitz, London, 1964.

[gacougnol]

Helena Georgiou

[gacougnol]

Maarten Vanden Abeele

Pina Bausch's choregraphy

[philomena-famulok]

© Philomena Famulok

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Temptations, 2001

@Jason Langer

[deludedflower]

Alexandra de Steiguer, Engaging the Oceanic, 2023

[deludedflower]

Alexandra de Steiguer, The Mirror Holds Them Not, 2010

[paolo-streito-1264]

Cobie Romero.