* tender / mercy

— Keira Cass, “The Heir” (via blueberry-dreamer)

RADHIKA APTE IN RAAT AKELI HAI (2020)

— James Baldwin, from “Take Me to the Water,” in No Name in the Street (via firstfullmoon)

 Éric Rohmer . Conte d’automne . 1998

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin

Aries: “Demons have faith, but they tremble.” Taurus: “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” Gemini: “I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.” Cancer: “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”  Leo: “I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”  Virgo: “How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself?” Libra: “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.“ Scorpio: “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” Sagittarius: “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” Capricorn: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”  Aquarius: “You’re like an angel, nothing touches you.” Pisces: “My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”

Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)

— Alexander Pushkin, featured in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry; “Autumn”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. October 1907

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion)

noun the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.

— heavy is the head that does not rest // p.s. (via gallixie)

Jamón Jamón (1992)