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Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia. April 2015

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“…I stumbled after as usual as I’ve been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing…but burn, burn,burn like roman candles across the night.

Jack Kerouac, On The Road (via whyallcaps)

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He is so close to me, sometimes I can’t see him.

Jack Kerouac about Allen Ginsberg, in a journal entry (via victoriajoan)

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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche  (via aoque)

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If I wanted to shake this tree with my hands I should be unable to do it. But the wind, which we cannot see, torments it and bends it where it wishes. It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst. (…) Now it is with men as with this tree. The more it wants to rise into the heights and the light, the more determinedly do its roots strike earthwards, downwards, into the darkness, into the depths - into evil.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche  (via aoque)

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“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides 

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Ticket for the Orient Express

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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.

Jack Kerouac, On The Road (via wordsnquotes)

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I am deathly afraid of almosts — of coming so very close to where I want to be in life that I can almost taste it, almost touch it, then falling just a little short.

Beau Taplin, “Just Short” (via wordsnquotes)

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Every place is within walking distance; people are the ones out of reach.

Rakishi, “So goes the smoke" cir. 1918  (via shesinacoma)

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Audrey Hepburn dancing with director Billy Wilder on the set of Sabrina by Mark Shaw, 1953