[mournfulroses]

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

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)

[quotespile]

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[quotespile]

“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog’s yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum’s scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother’s retreat.”

— David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair

[marypickfords]

Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)

[last-picture-show]

Francis Bacon, Study of a Figure in a Landscape, 1952

[finelythreadedsky]

understatement of the year

[paper-wounds]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[philosophybits]

“One of the chief objections leveled against existentialism is that the precept “to will freedom” is only a hollow formula and offers no concrete content for action. But that is because one has begun by emptying the word freedom of its concrete meaning; we have already seen that freedom realizes itself only by engaging itself in the world: to such an extent that man’s project toward freedom is embodied for him in definite acts of behavior.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

[resetme]

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enríquez

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca

[soracities]

Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks (trans. Richard Rees) [ID'd]

[paper-fairy]

Lisel Mueller, fragment from the poem "The Escape" — The Need to Hold Still: Collected Poems

[quotespile]

“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”

— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

[itsmeimcathy]

faust (1858) by charles gounod | le fantôme de l'opèra (1910) by gaston leroux | wuthering heights (1939) by william wyler | la belle et la bête (1947) by jean cocteau | labyrinth (1986) by jim henson | van helsing (2004) by stephen sommers | the phantom of the opera (2004) by joel schumacher | crimson peak (2014) by guillermo del toro | consumed (2014) by david cronenberg | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers