It Is So Cruel That We Think We’re Wasting Time When We’re Doing Something That We Love And That

Lovely Christmas illustration by Beatrix Potter

I love the way people talk about the people they love

Edward Hopper

“A whole ocean of opinions, each one defining you within someone else, and creating you in another man’s soul. It’s as if you were being born inside a thousand souls that are too tight–fitting for comfort!”

— Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke (tr. by Danuta Borchardt), 1937.

Flowers flowers flowers

got caught existing. embarrassing 

hard stance

Live like you’re going to die, because you are.