The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
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We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like being banished into forests far from everyone. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
Franz Kafka
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“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
One doesn't consider the loneliness such fear brings. What use is all the power in the world when you're lonely at the top?
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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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(43) Wuthering Heights comic 21- bullying edgar
This scene is my favorite one in the book so far. Absolutely incredible.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria
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I think everything in this whole universe is about love and art. And when it's not about love and art then it's about the absence of love and art.
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