Organicromantic

“I carry the fruit of early summer in woven wooden baskets to put into iced water, garnished with basil and rosemary.”

“I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”

— Anais Nin - from a diary entry dated March 25, 1933 featured in The Diary of Anais Nin: Volume 1.1931-1934:

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I’m not casual. I will swallow your soul so we can emerge as one.

Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885-1940)

Venus and Servant in the Exotic Palace

A red fox snacking on a plum.

FREDERIC DESMETTE / BIOSPHOTO / MINDEN PICTURES

The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.

“Her ancient gestures, her perfume, the infinite intimacy of her rage,”

— Christina Peri-Rossi, tr. by Carol Thickstunt, from “The Bacchante,”  (via flaubertian)

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

— Anaïs Nin