Anaïs Nin, From A Diary Entry Featured In The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov

I’ll never not sob over these 2 shots.

Anaïs Nin, from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

"I exist as I am, that is enough,

If no other in the world be aware I sit content,

And if each and all be aware I sit content.

One world is aware and by far the largest to me,

and that is myself..."

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold // by georges bataille, literature and evil (1957, tr. Alastair Hamilton) // The glass essay, Anne Carson

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Fellini’s Casanova (1976)