“There Was A Grand Piano, Too, And Charles Was Playing, A Glass Of Whiskey On The Seat Beside Him.

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

Vincent van Gogh

I will tell it to you one day and you'll see everything make sense. And please embrace me and whisper sweet things to me.

“And you are my sacred book. My poem.” 

 – Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks

"Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown."

-Erich Fromm; To Have or to Be?

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

personal moodboard for @partialto

“In your eyes you dearly hold all of night’s allure / Oh you, Joy at the end of my solitude! / Your kisses as sweet as the sweetest fruits / And your voice lulling me like a dreamy prelude / Softly sung by the sea for night’s beauty in bloom.” — Renée Vivien

"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all."

medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life.

but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-John Keating; Dead Poets Society

Who else just fucking loves the color green

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange