chroniko

“She always walked under the arches of nights
And everywhere she went
She left
The mark of broken things.”
― Paul Éluard, Capital of Pain

“The day after he married her, he delivered a scolding to his wife: ‘No sooner do you arrive here than you start wasting our money.’ But the scolding was less from him than from his aunt, who had ordered him to deliver it. His wife apologized to him, of course, and to the aunt as well – with the potted jonquils she had bought for him in the room.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“He had barely read two pages when he caught himself with a sour smile. So – the lies that Strindberg wrote to his lover, the Countess, were hardly different from his own.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“True, the Van Gogh was just a book of reproductions, but even in the photographs of those paintings, he sensed the vivid presence of nature.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man