... One Night A Friend Lent Me A Book Of Short Stories By Franz Kafka. I Went Back To The Pension Where

"Death is the Mother of Beauty"

“for someone who doesn’t want to lose me you’re not acting like you want to keep me”

- j.b.

"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart...I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly."

-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

'Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas.'

"Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth."

Isaac Newton, Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae

51. What question could you ask to find out the most about a person?

My answer (fair’s fair) is a well- timed “how are you?” I find if you ask at a moment they’re concentrating on something else, or otherwise demonstrate genuine interest or even curiosity, most people (yes, even us English) will give an honest answer, sometimes more honest than they mean to.

Oohh, what an interesting question! I feel like I would also ask "how are you doing?" But or me, I would ask "What do you want to do?" Sometimes, they'll answer what they want to do in the present moment like grabbing a coffee, or they'll dive into a monologue about what they want for their future or dream job/education. I think it reveals more about the person whether they answer in "present" or "future" terms. You get to know how they feel or where they want to be right now or you understand what they really want for themselves in the long term.

"Christmas is a magical moment of glory; the birth of humanity."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.

— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo

[text ID: but the sunflower is mine in a way.]

A tiny devil vitrified in a prism of glass. In the 18th century, the Imperial Treasury of Vienna attested that this was a real demon which had been trapped in glass during an exorcism in Germany a century earlier. ⁣From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.⁣

the flowers of your love are suffocating me

The Roses of Heliogabalus - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (detail) // “Monster” (1994-2001) - Naoki Urasawa // Samuel Cirnansck at Sao Paulo Fashion Week Summer (2012) // x // “Hanahaki Disease” Part 2 - Celeste Durham // “hanahaki disease” - ari // Hannibal (2013-2015)