We’re all curious about what might hurt us.
- Federico García Lorca
Pirina Dzhupanova by Georgi Andinov for Amica Bulgaria November 2012
A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.
- Caitlin Stasey
William James
He who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
- Anne Brontë, The Narrow Way
Photographer: Stefan Rappo
Model: Justine Nicolas & Eva Biechey
Natasa Vojnovic by Txema Yeste in “The Libertine” for Numero China, February 2015
Prada Fall/Wint 1993 - Christy Turlington by Peter Lindbergh (1993)
Sasha Stone
Ali Michael
NY Times Style, Holiday 2007
ph. Paolo Roversi
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters. Creation is all.
- Pablo Picasso
Peter Basch :: Untitled woman nude from profile, 1960′s / more [+] by this photographer
Photograph: Valeria Lazareva
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence.
Make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.”
- Wendell Berry
ieva by jack o'connor in the maldives. march, 2015.
Thomas Bak
Sonia Szóstak_Maja Salamon and Alex Mru
Michael Magin Photography
Ralph Gibson
Jane Birkin on the set of Projection privée, François Leterrier, 1973
mark sink
You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.
- Dylan Moran
Stefano Moro
Art is a wound turned into light.
- Georges Braque
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
- Anatole France
This is our misfortune
and maybe
our small grace:
we throw words at the dark
and the dark comes
back to us;
-John Thompson, from “Moving Out, Moving In,” in At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets (1973)
Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.
- Henry Miller
…I feel that I am not saying what I want to say, I haven’t found the proper outlet for my thoughts.
- Gustave Flaubert, from Intimate Notebook: 1840-1841
christian dior haute couture ss17
So much light and so empty.
- Franz Kafka, Diaries
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
- Carl Jung
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If you fall, I’ll pick you up, if not, I will lay down with you.
- Julio Cortázar
Sergey Komarov
Love does not change because its hours or weeks are brief, but firm it endures to the edge of the abyss.
- William Shakespeare
Clement Louis
Jena Goldsack by Mert & Marcus for Vogue Paris September 2016
Make your own nature, not the advice of others, your guide in life.
- Pythia, the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. 83 BC
You drank some darkness
and became visible.
- Tomas Tranströmer, from ‘Elegy’, The Half-Finished Heaven
Szymon Zürn
Julie, Paris
Thania by Kay Ruhe
I know now that death is not the loss of memory, but its apotheosis. An apotheosis of light. You no longer need to make an effort to remember.
- Edmond Jabès, in From the Book to the Book
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
Josef Ehm. Resting Model II.1960
I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because your heart is blind.
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
Apologizing does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.
- Mark Matthews
Bill Brandt
Torso, 1955
Rafael Navarro ph. stones
emma stone new york times 2016
Eves Eve-tachi ,1970 by TATSUKI Yoshihiro
He said he loved me, the magic word, it was supposed to make everything light up, I’ll never trust that word again.
- Margaret Atwood, “Surfacing”
Katie Krulock
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
-
Frida Kahlo
ALANNA ARRINGTON BY HILL & AUBREY FOR 10 MAGAZINE
The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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