“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. September 1907
“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you’re about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you’re wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.”
— Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
When Carson was a child she read a book called Lives of the Saints and loved it so much that she tried to eat the pages.
Emma Brockes, A Life in Writing: Anne Carson.
#cannibalism
How many yous have you been? How many, Lined up inside, Each killing the last.
Kate Tempest, The Woman the Boy Became
Don't be a stranger to someone who has seen you as a homeland.
لا تغرب أحدا رآك وطنا
- Mahmoud Darwish
“Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.”
― Gilles Deleuze
In the moments where you go unnoticed, in the ordinary day to day, countless miracles of life surround us pointing like arrows to Your name.
Endless Alleluia
I love you, and I’m conscious of you all the time.
Virginia Woolf, Letter to Katherine
“A single decision is easy to dismiss. But when we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalising little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. It’s the accumulation of many missteps - a 1 percent decline here and there - that eventually leads to a problem. The impact created by a change in your habits is similar to the effect of shifting the route of an airplane by just a few degrees. Imagine you are flying from Los Angeles to New York City. If a pilot leaving from LAX adjusts the heading just 3.5 degrees south, you will land in Washington, D.C., instead of New York. Such a small change is barely noticeable at takeoff - the nose of the airplane moves just a few feet - but when magnified across the entire United States, you end up hundreds of miles apart. Similarly, a slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.”
— James Clear, Atomic Habits
“Real sex is worship, not just physical performance.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle