Tomás Sánchez (Cuban, b. 1948), Luz de una tarde de tormenta [Light of a stormy afternoon], 1990. Oil on canvas,  22 x  28 in.

// Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

wood engraving today

Albert Camus, The Fall

You can be free and still come home

When you recognize the beauty in loss and the love in letting go

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Masochism of the Pure

— Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under The Influence, John Cassavetes, 1974

Albert Camus, from a play titled "Caligula," featured in Caligula & Three Other Plays

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

by Alessandro Sanna

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

girl what the fuck else would he be doing down there