In my blue promises, I gave to the ocean everything I’ve ever owned.
I asked myself this question, ‘why trying to please others?’ and suddenly, everything changed within me.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
The Angel of Death, a sculpture of a funeral gondola, in Venice. Photo taken by Paolo Monti in 1951.
“ Here’s a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky’s above me, Here’s a heart for every fate. ”
― 01.22.22 • Happy 234th Birthday, Lord George Gordon Byron !
De Mondzoen (1879) by Pierre Jean Van der Ouderaa
is it my mistake to be so narrow-minded?








