ever & evermore

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “Benediction,” in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Stories

— Mihail Sebastian, Women (trans. Phillip Ó Ceallaigh)

we are so obsessed with beauty that we forget that love has nothing to do with beauty. love doesn’t presuppose beauty: love creates it. beauty is a finite thing, love is not. beauty cannot come before love, but love makes anything beautiful. 

i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick

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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson

“this doesn’t compare to the feel of your skin”

[ID: braille lettering, on a beige background, spelling the above phrase.]

Wabi Sabi

(n.) Finding beauty in the imperfections of life and accepting that everything is constantly changing.

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx in Giza Egypt, 1961.

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

[Text ID: Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

Let it go.]

please please please help me find more cats smelling a smelly smell 

A compilation from the notes: stimky

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