are you ever in the middle of saying something or showing someone something and you realize that literally no one cares
I wish every single thing I owned was cool and old so that whenever my place gets a little messy it just looks like I’m an eccentric genius from the Edwardian era who puts their stuff in places that may seem random to visitors but make perfect sense to me, the intellectual
“We love shadows of our hidden selves in others.”— Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950
(via violentwavesofemotion)
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
From “Honey, we built Chernobyl or: a cigar-shaped shelter” group show at Krakow, 2019
“I adored you. You were so soft, so diabolically angelic looking.”—
Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of
Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)