melancholy of perfection

[nitratedamile]

Vivien Leigh photographed by Gordon Anthony, 1938.

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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“I create entire romances in my dreams.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘White Nights’

[anailogico]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Como Fernando Pessoa Salvou Portugal (Eugène Green, 2018)

[bala5]

[floresehaicais]

“26 December. Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves and is ready to release what lies deeper.”

— Franz Kafka, from Diaries (via kafkaesque-world)

[wordscanbeenough]

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be;

Joan Didion, from “On Keeping a Notebook”, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

[cobblestonestreet]

Danielle Darrieux and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in “The Rage of Paris”, 1938

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I am a complete person—the physical and spiritual in me are related. I am total.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. October 1933

[woliwe]

[convivial-joy]

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[finita-la-commedia]

[nevver]

Drive all night, Henri Prestes (because)

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The Conversation, 2006

@ Ryan Widger

[childmagazine]

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