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This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it to you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, 'Take it. This is my life.'

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Lita Cabellut. Dulcinea II. Oil and plaster on linen. 79x63 inches. 2010.

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“I love you. I’ll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.”

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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Henry Patrick Raleigh

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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (via wordsnquotes)

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Why can't we be natural? Oh, I know full well that courage is what's missing. Neither artists not poets have the courage to acknowledge human beings for what they are.

Jens Peter Jacobsen, Niels Lyhne (Note: J. P. Jacobsen was Rilke’s favorite writer)

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“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Vincent van Gogh

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Art exists because life is not enough.

Ferreira Gullar (via an-art-gallery)

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Perhaps I was one of those soldiers whose wars were fought behind closed doors alone.

Vanessa Sheathes (via wnq-writers)

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You cannot feel what you do not feel; you cannot be blamed for that lack.

Martha Gellhorn, from Selected Letters (via victoriajoan)

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What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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I do nothing, and I fret about it.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via adderalldust)