Ad astra, ad meliora.

The Birth of Venus (detail) by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) oil on canvas, 1879

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via resqectable)

—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

James Sant’s Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle (1850)

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská (Prague, September 14, 1920)

Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicilia, Italia | cappuccinointheclouds

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

[text ID: Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence.]

A Savage Garden, Dante Émile. From WELL-LOVED BLOOD.

the moon in paintings. x

— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

Seam: ‘Interviewer’s Note IV’ by Tarfia Faizullah

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov. (via xshayarsha)