Simone de Beauvoir, from "The Woman Destroyed," originally published in 1967
btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off
It's so easy to eat a healthy snack in the summer, 'cause the seasonal fruits are so delicious!
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Sometimes you just need to go to the bookstore to be surrounded by books. It's exciting and relaxing at the same time. No need to buy anything. Just smelling them and stare at the pretty covers.
Demonology
A Question of Free Will: Inside the Final Days of Katherine Mansfield
The Humiliating Act of Falling In Love
How to read a painting
When Horror Is the Truth-teller
Love Is Like Cocaine
Lizzie Siddal: The life of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel
Joan Didion Against a Performative Life
Women drawing nudes: a history of forbidden bodies
How midlife became a crisis
and more to come!
Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012
devour me (via)
[11/100] days of productivity
It's Monday, so...you know the gist.
Read, eat, write, repeat.
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oak-wood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast inter-laced intricacy of her body.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad