"There were always in me, two women at least,
one woman desperate and bewildered,
who felt she was drowning and another who
would leap into a scene, as upon a stage,
conceal her true emotions because they
were weaknesses, helplessness, despair,
and present to the world only a smile,
an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest." -Anais Nin

"It began with the rise of the cities. There simply was no place in the refined temples of Attica and Sparta for a mountain goat like Pan." A third nymph, who, with a wad of leaves, was scrubbing herself clean of caked secretions, joined in. "it was man's jealousy of woman that started it," she said. "They wanted to drive the goddesses out of ( Read more... )

“The Sun Never Says”
Hafiz
translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe
Me.”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

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I don't mean to seem like I
Care about material things,
Like a social status
I just want
Four walls and adobe slabs
For my girls

"So, why shouldn't one fall in love with spring? The caress of the spring air was so soft and so all-embracing that a man's hands, even his hands, seemed coarse to me by comparison."

- Etty Hilllesum
An Interrupted Life

but i don't want to go among mad people," alice remarked.
"oh, you can't help that," said the cat: "we're all mad here. i'm mad. you're mad."
"how do you know i'm mad?" said alice.
"you must be," said the cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

hey, i decided to make another journal. i guess the difference is that this one will be more personal. im still going to use the other one though just not as often. um everything is going to be friends only so comment if you wanna be added. yuppp =D