#moments of being

[amicus-noctis]

 I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.  ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being

Painting: "Interior with a woman in sunlight from a window" by Christian Pedersen-Bellinge

#classical literature #classics #quotes #albert camus #franz kafka #poetry #sylvia plath #classical quotes #literature #booklr #virginia woolf #to the lighthouse #moments of being #booklover #bookblr #books #books & libraries #book quotes #reading #bookworm #currently reading #margaret atwood #female writers #lit #classic literature #literary quotes #english literature #dostoevksy #leo tolstoy #the bell jar

[citylawns]

‘On Bad Feelings’ from Moments of Being.

#moments of being

[essayisms]

Okay, I am back for good this time. To explain my prolonged absence - I had a full-time job in a meaningless but exhausting role I hated for just under a year that sucked away everything that I enjoyed doing such as reading, writing, learning etc. I quit that job in September and I’ve been having a very hard time financially, yet I am still happier than I was when I had that job. I haven’t been myself in a long time. That’s changing now. I’m reading again. I’m writing now. I’ve just started a newsletter called Moments of Being where I discuss literature, art, fashion, culture, music... and a lot of personal reflections too. 

What would people want from a newsletter? Guidance on studying? On writing? Discussions around books I am reading? If you have any suggestions or requests I’d love to hear them! Sorry for being gone so long <3

@rhiharper

#journal #liitblr #books #booklr #bookblr #literature #reading #studyblr #academia #dark academia #light academia #light academia aesthetic #moments of being #fitzcarraldo editions #book photography

[watchoutforintellect]

I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.

Virginia Woolf, from Moments of Being, Autobiographical Writings

#lit #literature #words #quotes #virginia woolf #woolf #moments of being #autobiography #diary #journal #pain

[mythoughttherapy]

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

—Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being

#virginia woolf #quotes #writer #author #booklr #bookstagram #life #english literature #english lit #literature quotes #novelist #moments of being

[nsnousworld]

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Alan Watts

#gentle living #moments of being #well being #productivity #self improvement #slow living #quote #words to live by #mantra #Alan Watts #power of now #spilled words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #be present

[coffeebooksandmore]

What type of flower are you?

coffeeandbookss

#flowers #gardening #birds #birding #sunset #reader #reading #bookworm #moments of being

[slowandsweet]

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

#psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #clinical psychology #desire #life #awakining #connection #moments of being #virginia woolf

[strykerlancer]

I put my bare hand on her bare hand and felt, “This is genuine.” There can be no mistake about this.

— Virginia Woolf, from “Moments Of Being.”

#Virginia Woolf #Moments Of Being #words #What am I if not yours? What do I do with my hands when they are just hands? #literature #on hands

[usunezukoinezu]

''I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together. Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we - I mean all human beings - are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art.''

-Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being - A Sketch of the Past

#Virginia Woolf #Moments of Being #A Sketch of the Past

[thinkingimages]

In ‘A Sketch of the Past’, Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical memoirs, she explicitly designates ‘moments of being’ as the material of art. In this text, as in the first occurrence of the term in her fiction—the 1928 short story entitled ‘Moments of Being: “Slater’s pins have no points”’—the word she uses as a synonym for a ‘moment of being’ is ‘shock’ (Woolf 1985, 71).6 A ‘shock’ occurs when the ‘nondescript cotton wool’ of ‘non-being’—that is, the humdrum, forgettable activities of daily life, associated with the normalised appearances of the world—is abruptly torn open. This tear is likened to a physical ‘blow’ delivered by ‘something real behind appearances’ which emerges at this point.

(Woolf 1985, 70–72) as cited in Disturbing Epiphany: Rereading Virginia Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being’Perturber l’épiphanie : une relecture des « moments d’être » de Virginia Woolf – Naomi Toth

#virginia woolf #affect #autonomy #consciousness #epiphany #modernist aesthetics #moments of being #perception #shock #subject #naomi toth

[justine-leopardine]

Liège, 2010.

#heart fragment #fragments #moments of being #moments of life #dessin d'observation #illustration #graphite #zoologie #human bones #art school

[waywardmeteor]

Jane Austen, Persuasion // Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being

#jane austen #virginia woolf #quotes #persuasion #moments of being #words #intimacy #w

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath. #not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first. #I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*. #Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about. #I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/ #Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight - #The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room! #Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

#also has made it increasingly difficult to relate to those early into their transition honestly #like not in a bitter way it’s just like hard to express how diff the experience is #of being like a year on T vs 5 😭 #ETA I muted this post ages ago now but fwiw seeing transphobes pop up in the notes on occasion just to say cruel reactionary shit #you are clowns I cannot imagine seeing a post that is ONLY about discussing with folks about the reality of a medication #and choosing to make that your moment to get a schoolyard bully jab in about how you find it gross or something. #you are less well adjusted than must children. may the universe be kinder to you than you are to others.

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

#not art #but important #please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads #in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite