Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

I’m so happy to be alive

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

April 5, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

Theodore Roethke, from "Vernal Sentiment", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

I would rather be whole than good

- Carl Jung

30 March, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

London, 1949. source