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“I know you, and stare at you in silence.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from ‘Flowerbeds of Amaranths’

A favourite , always !

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

— Haruki Murakami

Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

“And so it seems that I must always write you letters that I can never send.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

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Akshay Vasu / Carel Fabritius / Anjum Choudhary / Franz Kafka / Charles Bukowski / Frederick Carl Frieseke / Ray Bradbury

Paul Cézanne - Pyramid of Skulls (1898-1900)