Volatile

“And the world goes by creaking at the joints.”

[loumargi]

Antonio Canova (1757-1822) – Aphrodite et Adonis

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““The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.””

— - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (via katiesclassicbooks)

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“The moral of the story is I will gut you if I need to. I will carve my way out using only my teeth.”

— Brenna Twohy, from Swallowtail

[daniela-jacobs]

[thesphinxandherselves]

“Inside, I am everything and nothing.”

— Cecília Meireles, tr. by Natalie D’Arbeloff, from “How To Recognize The Road: To Die,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[artpedia]

Caravaggio - The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail),  1599-1600. Oil on canvas 

[genterie]

Romeo and Juliet Illustration by Sergio Cupido

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“Autumn is here with its full clouds and intelligent earth. My love, the year has reached its maturity.”

— Nâzım Hikmet, from “Poems for Piraye; The Collected Poems of N. H.,”

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by Sarah Bahbah

[bey]

[jamesreads]

[florizels]

“The self is not a fixed, organic thing, but a dramatic effect that emerges from a performance. This effect can be believed or disbelieved at will.”

— Jia Tolentino, from “The I in Internet” in Trick Mirror

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Castle ~ The Secret Garden, by Mike Savad.

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Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”

‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, August 3rd, 1930’

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