December 2011
194 posts
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust (1871–1922, France)
“When one dreams of another,
Are both aware of it?
We’re apart as darkness is...”
– Yüan Chen, Three Dreams at Chiang-ling Translated by William H. Nienhauser (via frenchtwist)
“Moonlight fell directly over her bed in the summer. She lay naked in it for...”
– Anaïs Nin, The potion drunk by lovers, from Aphrodisiac (via frenchtwist)
“I am not trying to seem resistant to influences. I merely note that I have...”
– Samuel Beckett on reading Kafka, from The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 (via)
“I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing...”
– Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks (via frenchtwist)
“Love is distinct from desire… Because its aim is not satisfaction, but being.”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, trans. John Forrester (via proustitute)
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via frenchtwist)
