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“I Want to Be Happy” by Thelonious Monk [Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins, 1992]

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone Thelonious Monk - piano Tommy Potter - bass Art Taylor - drums

Recorded in Hackensack, NJ on October 25, 1954.

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Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief—all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man… that it’s better to hang oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (via ig-narus)

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We loved each other, just never at the same time.

Anonymous  (via unpresentable)

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It was my dream that screwed up.

—Jack Kerouac, from On the Road (Penguin Books, 1976)

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Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate. Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met. "Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.” This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted. When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: “My travels have changed me…” Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

Kafka and the Doll: The Pervasiveness of Loss.

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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me         a deeper song.

— Khalil Gibran, from The Prophet (Alfred A. Knopf, 1923)

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"Persona" (1966) - Ingmar Bergman