We Do Not Need To Get Rid Of Anger In Order To Give Up Hatred.

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"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

The great rose window above the portals of the lower basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi (1253).

Snoopy rice & Miffy bao buns, pizza, and rice by matchaoats

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

ah comfort

Bookish places in France 🇫🇷

"For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think."

-Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossesed