simone weil

ursula k. leguin

Infirmary of the Carmel at Lisieux where Thérèse died on 30 September 1897

Artist Elaine Thi shot her self-portrait on a Nintendo 3DS (2026)

Images created solely using mathematical equations by mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yaganeh

喜宴 (The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee, 1993)

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

from "Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932"

I THINK LOVE IS SOMETHING / THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE - Michael Gray Bulla