Nothing, However, Can Be More Arrogant, Though Nothing Is Commoner Than To Assume That Of Gods There

Are there two ways of knowing the world? a submissive and a devouring way. They end up roughly the same place.

Anne Carson, Kinds of Water

they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.

Ada Limón, Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning

Not to act in this tragedy, but to live

Alicja Rybałko, Curriculum Vitae tr. Regina Grol

Portrait Bust of a Woman (detail), Roman, Antonine Period, 140-150 AD

Photo by Erika Dufour

nah bro, you live in a society, i live in a homoerotic victorian romance novel

I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add me to the sum of her.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

There is a solitude in this world

I cannot pierce. I would die for it.

- Ada Limón, Drowning Creek

- take it all / - it’s too little

- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol

burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando