mental slavery.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

— Vita Sackville West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926.

they’re not going to let you
feel good
for very long
anywhere.
the forces aren’t going to
let you sit around
fucking off and
relaxing.
you’ve got to do it
their way.

—Charles Bukowski

(Source: bukowski.net, via r-u-m-i-n-e)