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The Beautiful Person (2008), dir. Christophe Honoré
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yo it’s literally november 3rd. what’s next the 4th? and then. no it can’t be.
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Amazing aurora spiral captured by David Cartier.
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“November is a hinge in the year, and the door gets opened to ghosts.”
— Nina MacLaughlin, from “On the First of November, the Ghosts Arrive”, The Paris Review (via voirlvmer)
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La prima notte di quiete (Valerio Zurlini, 1972)
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Alain Delon and Sonia Petrovna in 'Indian Summer'
1972
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“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible. When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Yes, talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial, and in them intelligence gleams like an image in a mirror. The mere thought of having to enter into contact with someone else makes me nervous. A simple invitation to have dinner with a friend produces an anguish in me that’s hard to define. The idea of any social obligation whatsoever – attending a funeral, dealing with someone about an office matter, going to the station to wait for someone I know or don’t know – the very idea disturbs my thoughts for an entire day, and sometimes I even start worrying the night before, so that I sleep badly. When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of the Disquiet, 49 (trans. Richard Zenith)
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