"Je me souviens—" "Vraiment?"

I actually think you’re a version of me if I’d never met my friends. You’re like the worst-case scenario of what I could’ve become, no offence. […] You could be better. If we’re cut from the same cloth, then trust me.

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

SPIRITED AWAY / 千と千尋の神隠し  dir. hayao miyazaki (2001)

If the ocean is nearby, then I can die whenever I want. Those kinds of thoughts bring me some peace. I think I can try to go on living for another day. Another day. Trying hard for another day. I want to be connected to this life. You know, Hachi… I came to this place searching for somewhere to die. So what in the world am I still doing here? You know, Hachi… When I’m embraced by the sea breeze, the sound of the waves has such a sweet allure. But I cannot throw away this life that you saved.

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— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.   (via halcynth)

- me, a person who definitely has the time to do that but also has terrible time management skills and most likely to just spend 4 hours getting absolutely nothing accomplished instead of the hundred other things I could and should be doing

by Fernanda S.

Anne Carson, Nox

— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly, from “The Song the Blind Man Sings,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Cafè kiss by Joseph Lorusso, 1966