February 2012
315 posts
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That...
– Pascal Mercier (via mirroir)
And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being...
– T. S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
– Thomas Carlyle
One wants to turn away—and cry
for fire to break out on the stairs
and raze...
– Dana Gioia, from “Maze without a Minotaur” (via proustitute)