"For ever shall we be in quest of the shores, that we may sing and be heard. But what of the wave that breaks where no ear shall hear? It is the unheard in us that nurses our deeper sorrow. Yet it is also the unheard which carves our soul to form and fashion our destiny"
Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet
I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck (2016) (via lunamonchtuna)
— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries
starting to think the amount of sleep you get has an impact on how much energy you have the next day. i’ll investigate more and get back to you
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
you know that man vs bear conversation ppl are having? dostoy gets it
Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me
“I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet
Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.