Transition is a complete present which unites the past and the future in a momentary progressive ecstasy, a progressive eternity, a true eternity of eternities, the eternal moments. Jan Ramon Jiminez 

I’ve been thinking about you. It appears that I have thought only of you. Also I’ve been thinking of murder. Elizabeth Waugh, from a letter to Edmund Wilson wr. c. January 1937 (via violentwavesofemotion)

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (via the-book-diaries) Source: the-book-diaries