[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[petaltexturedskies]

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“…the terrible yearning.”

— Risto Ahti, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “Genie,”

[roua-poemului]

“Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.”

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando.

[renktenyoksun]

[restless-dreqm]

Sex , lies, and videotape (1989)

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟸𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: I must be alone. What I accomplished was only the result of being alone. END ID]

[toiich]

Breathless (1960), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[xshayarsha]

“some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea”

— Ocean Vuong, from Night Sky with Exit Wounds; My Father Writes From Prison.

[perriaeyjeve]

[petaltexturedskies]

Albert Camus, The Fall

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“As for myself, I had a lot to say. But I was silent.”

— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Intuitions,” wr. c. 1932

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated October 13, 1959)

[rruslana2-deactivated20200620]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[jacobwren]

“I am not myself with people […] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“All alone she was. All alone with her soul.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from The Collected Stories of K. M.; “The Lonely One,”