Marta Orlowska

April, 1935 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939  [volume 2]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.

1. Flame Nebula / 2. Orion Nebula

“The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year.” 🌌 WISE, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.

– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Veronica Veronese [1872]

" Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. "

- C. G. Jung

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Robert Eggers, from the original Nosferatsu script (2016)

Text ID: I have sought a creature from the depths. An Eve that remembers her Eden. You are such a one.