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"So let the city do as it must and break us down
to dust and skeletons. I’m just beginning." quoted from Mark Wunderlich, from “Given in Person Only” in The Anchorage (via proustitute)
"Toska: Russian – Vladimir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom." quoted from After The Storm: Toska (via mirroir)

(via mirroir)

First World War. Young man walking through a ruined street in Reims. France, 1914.
Second World War. Young man in front of a large stone statue of a growling lion at the sea. Place unknown. 1941.

List of Words To Know #3

mirroir:

Malapert - clever in manners of speech
Duende - unusual power to attract or charm
Concilliabule - a secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot
Strikhedonia - the pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”
Lygerastia - the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out
Ayurnamat - the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed
Sphallolalia - flirtatious talk that leads no where
Baisemain - a kiss on the hand
Druxy - something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside
Mamihlapinatapei - the look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move

(Source: larmoyante)

"Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames." quoted from Rumi (via mirroir)

(Source: lazyyogi, via mirroir)

"I’ve often lost myself in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake." quoted from Federico García Lorca (via mirroir)

(Source: larmoyante, via mirroir)

"I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend…" quoted from Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (via mirroir)

(Source: larmoyante, via mirroir)

"
I’ll teach her that she has an army inside her
that can save her life.
" quoted from Nicole Blackman, from Daughter (via amethyste-heart)

(Source: colporteur, via amethyste-heart)

"When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love." quoted from The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)

(Source: quote-book)