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[aurelle]

[adrasteiax]

Mary Oliver, from Green, Green Is My Sister’s House in “A Thousand Mornings”

[seaoflove]

louise glück, from averno

[savagedefectives]

an interview with didion

[firstfullmoon]

was listening to an excerpt from a toni morrison interview with the paris review and had to pause and take a breath because she said “I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is, I think it would exist in any case. The startle and the wonder of being in this place. This overwhelming beauty—some of it is natural, some of it is man-made, some of it is casual, some of it is a mere glance—is an absolute necessity. I don’t think we can do without it anymore than we can do without dreams or oxygen.”

[stlowens]

Sylvia Plath, from, “Three Women.”

[28082000]

@championistic.co

[neidfaerae]

“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via soracities)

[januaryhoney]

north country, mary oliver

[narrowruled]

Read this today and...yes.

[abigaildonaldson]

Devon Aoki in “La Couture Nature” by Satoshi Saikusa for Vogue Paris March 2000

[markrichardson]

I respect working hard but I dread a day job. Or a job interview. I’ve got a truant heart, I just want to be gone. I’d be in the kitchens, the corridors at work, and I’d be staring at the panels on the roof, clocking all the maintenance doors, dreaming about getting into the airducts. A portal. As a kid I used to dream about being put in the bins, escaping from things, without my mum knowing she’d put me out in the bins. So I’m in a black plastic bag outside a building, and hearing the rain against it, but feeling alright, and just wanting to sleep, and a truck would take me away.

Burial interviewed by Mark Fisher in The Wire, 2007. A remarkable image, the kid in the trash bag hearing the rain on the plastic, don’t get quotes like that in interviews often.

[thesaddestchorusgirlintheworld]

They get it

[trend-spotting]

[simplistic-serendipity]

best post-christmas fashion sales

[stitchblades]

jenny holzer, SURVIVAL (1983-85)

[narrowruled]

work is so tiring! nervous about being called ‘sassy’ when i expressed my exhaustion today, supposed to have a day off tomorrow but agreed to two meetings. when am i allowed to rest. anyway, getting my hair cut and blowdried in highgate for a stupid amount of money this weekend to make myself feel better.

24 feels so old. i keep panicking about having nothing to show for it- obsessed with figuring out how much i will have to earn to live in a flat in zone 2 without flatmates

the ladies in the turkish-cypriot cafe on my road see me at my most frazzled- midday once a week or so when i run from my desk for a spinach and feta flatbread and a strong coffee between meetings (there and back in 6 mins) and always call me beautiful, small mercies etc.

[perrfectly]

[thenordroom]

Historic home in The Netherlands

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