“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat’s ‘purple-stained mouth’, or perhaps even of Homer’s dangerously wine-dark sea.”— Victoria Finlay (via mirroir)
“I am too tired and too tiring.”— Marcel Proust, from a letter to Jean Gustave Tronche c. June 1919