godsopenwound:

Eroticism is, first of all, the most moving of realities; but it is nonetheless, at the same time, the most ignoble. Even after psychoanalysis, the contradictory aspects of eroticism appear in some way innumerable; their profundity is religious—it is horrible, it is tragic, it is still inadmissible. Probably all the more so since it is divine.

— Georges Bataille, The Tears of Eros

celtos:

the book of hours. rainer maria rilke

weltenwellen:

An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

existential-celestial:

“I burn, consumed; and resurrect, half-slain.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from “Solitude,” published c. January 1938

the-hearth-and-the-wild:

“Mythos, in Greek,” said Borges, “is not a story that is false. It is a story that is more than true. Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight.”

Jorge Luis Borges, quoted by Jay Parini in Borges and Me

mythologyofblue:

There isn’t a version of me that could have looked away from you.

-Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

theoptia:

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 1st, 1926

Text ID: Courage, be everything to yourself. Seek your truth; construct your life, a beautiful life; be strong and passionately cherish yourself to console yourself for being so alone in the midst of all those who love you.

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