#mindlife

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warm autumn slumber //pinterest

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"She was alone as everyone is every morning after a dream."

– Anaïs Nin, from "The Sealed Room" in "Children of the Albatross", 1959.

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oh, no and other heartbreaks // daydreaming mess

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“His eyelids were heavy as if from too much dreaming.”

– Anaïs Nin, from "The Sealed Room" in "Children of the Albatross", 1959.

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moon, a hole of light, through the big top tent up high, here before and after me, shinin' down on me. moon, tell me if I could send up my heart to you? so, when I die, which I must do, could it shine down here with you?

My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski

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“He received them smiling. Without money in his pocket he rushed to help. With generous excess he rushed to love, to desire, to possess, to lose, to suffer, to die the multiple little deaths everyone dies each day. He would even die and weep and suffer and lose with enthusiasm, with ardor. He was prodigal in poverty, rich and abundant in some invisible chemical equivalent to gold and sun.”

Anaïs Nin, from "The Sealed Room" in "Children of the Albatross", 1959

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“The transparency of the child skin, of the adolescent later to turn opaque. […] The mothers who kiss them are eating light. There is a phosphorescence which comes from the magic world of childhood. Where does this illumination go later? Is it the substance of faith which shines from their bodies like phosphorescence from the albatross, and what kills it?”

— Anaïs Nin, from "The Sealed Room" in "Children of the Albatross", 1959.

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Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca), (1970) by Ettore Scola