Onegin

Amira  •  Venice, Italy

[bonivers]

And Now That You Don’t Have To Be Perfect You Can Be Good 2026

[synqra]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrmzpzjPUA/

[fairycosmos]

[aegissi]

no talking stage I pull u towards me by our red string of fate and then we kiss on the mouth

[meczupp]

Interior of a forest, Paul Cézanne

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[thelovejournals]

“I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.”

— Henri Barbusse, The Inferno

[inland-delta]

André Brasilier, Diner en Ville, 1982

[weltenwellen]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

- James Baldwin talking about Love

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[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[rozieramati]

[probuccalfat]

every couple of months i put my life together and take it apart and put it back together because. well. what else

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

your life is not an optimization problem

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

[propertiesofjoy]

claude monet in winter

[vlindervin7]

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

[vlindervin7]

“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »

- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016

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from Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky