mournfulroses:

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

swordsandspectacles:

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Oil Pastel art from.. Ssseptember?

petaltexturedskies:

Long walks in the woods, going barefoot day and night, a lamp in the evening, a warm room, and the moon, whenever it suits her, and the stars when they are out, and otherwise just sitting and listening to the rain or to the storm as though it were God himself.

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Lou Salomé written c. December 1912, from Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

shisasan:

To walk home late at night down the narrow sidewalks is to think of all the old romances  one has read.ALT

January 12, 1925
Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
[volume 2]

cosmonautroger:

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Tom Forrestall, Eye And Thorns, 1999

shisasan:

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12 January, 1929
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Wool
f
(1924-1941)

muzantropic:

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Vintage Aerolux 2 Horses Decorative Neon Light Bulb, 1930’s

loveridden1999:

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just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. come over…

shisasan:

Feeling very miserable, half asleep, taking a little tea (...)ALT

7 January, 1926
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
(1924-1941)

shisasan:

Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.ALT

8 January, 1926
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
(1924-1941)

petaltexturedskies:

Whispering, I give her an inch of hope to bite on, like a bullet.ALT

Mary Oliver, from “Aunt Elsie’s Night Music”