Journal of a Nobody
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
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Amedeo Modigliani
Nu couché (1919)
Private Collection
(Source: onlyartists, via yolk-of-the-sun)
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Victor Hugo
Sleeping Nude
Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris
(Source: onlyartists, via yolk-of-the-sun)
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Melancholy by Christiane Vleugels
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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
— Anton Chekhov, “The Letter” (via alive-alive-oh)
