“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
[13/100] days of productivity
I've been really into this task of copying all the good stuff i screenshotted into my commonplace journal. The screenshots started in September 2023 and now I'm transcribing things from June 2024.
I'm slowly catching up!
current reads:
• Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
• Sappho of Lesbos by Alexander Trocchi
• The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio
• The Dead City by Gabriele D'Annunzio
Simone de Beauvoir, from "The Woman Destroyed," originally published in 1967
She lay quite still, in a sort of sleep, in a sort of dream.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off
Virginia Woolf, from "Cinema" in The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf
Simple pleasures: eating seasonal fruits, enjoying nature, going to art museums, getting lost in a book and savouring a cappuccino and croissant for breakfast.
ray bradbury
“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”
— Unknown