Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
— Hanif Kureishi (via thelittleyellowdiary)
You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Goal: one day at work, I want to give out a confirmation as follows….
” D as in Django, J as in Juan, A as in aesthetic”.
— (a)musings: (via paris2london)






