moonlight

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[petaltexturedskies]

I wear perfume to intensify who I am. That's why I can't use fragrances that go against me. Wearing perfume is an instinctive wisdom. Perfume is an art. And like all art, it requires some self-knowledge.

Clarice Lispector

[mournfulroses]

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

[lemonlimehermosa]

IG:the.penthaus

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[roohfully]

“Washing the saucepans– the moon glows on her hands in the shallow river.”

— Kobayashi Issa, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō , Buson & Issa (ed. and trans. Robert Hass)

[overclassy]

[neshamama]

liu qi, "xizhi (geese)," 2023, ink and color on paper

[minima--moralia]

“And life, I swear, is beautiful.”

— Clarice Lispector, in an excerpt from a crônica called The Discovery of the World, 6 July 1968, featured in The Paris Review, 1 August 2022

[mournfulroses]

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

[mournfulroses]

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to John Murry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

intoxicated

[theroyalgardens]

[sorrrowfull]

[southsidesantos]

mew

[esotericfilmangel]

samuel cirnansck 2012

[mournfulroses]

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, from a poem titled "A River On Its Way," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

[kosmogrl]