purplebuddhaquotes:

“…You were free of everything except what was unquestionably locked within yourself.”

— Franz Kafka

coral:

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

Peter De Vries, 

Reuben, Reuben (via coral)

(via blissfulover)

sotick:

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (via coral)