— Anaïs Nin, From The Voice

obsessed with her vibe

الفلاسفة والحب - من سقراط إلى سيمون دي بوفوار

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier.”

— Douglas Coupland, Player One

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

I am not meant for casual love. I was born for soul consuming love and obsession.

Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures