[missbrigittebardot]

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

[missbrigittebardot]

Brigitte Bardot in Two Weeks in September, 1966

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[achillesinhighheels]

[dumbpuppyfag]

(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

[alphaleather]

[philosophybits]

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James, “Letter to Helen Keller, 1908”, The Correspondence of William James

[miamaimania]

In Anticipation: A Moment of Suspense by Michele Bressan

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[madphantom]

"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?

[rrondo]

[dirkhaverkamp]

Summertime

[kafk-a]

David Walker’s paper clip collection

[artofthewire]

[philosophybits]

“Oh, if only it was just from laziness that I do nothing. Lord, how I could respect myself then. I could respect myself exactly because I was at least in the right condition to have laziness within me; there would be at least one characteristic, a positive one so to speak, of which I could be confident. The question: who is this? The answer: an idler. Now that would be something very pleasant to hear about oneself. It means I would be positively defined, it means there was something to be said about me.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[angelicdewdrop]