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[darkacademic42]

My Boyfriend about International Women's Day:

"Yeah women deserve recognition. For real. Shoutout to all the strong women."

*hesitates*

"And shit shoutout to the weak women too."

#aesthetic #feminist #feminism #internationalwomensday #women #beautiful women #gorgeous #weakwomentoo #lmaooo

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"Ladies, imagine this. It's 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You're the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long, exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money."

-@emtreas

#quotes #poetry #aesthetic #feminist #feminism #nokids #vacation #vacation vibes #freelife #liveyourlife #justlive #belong to you

[darkacademic42]

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

-Simone Weil

#simoneweil #quotes #poetry #aesthetic #darkacademia #sinner #i sin #everyonesins #dark academia #isitmorningyet #is it over for me #is it over now? #is it just me #is it over yet

[darkacademic42]

"All my grief says the same thing: this isn't how it's supposed to be. this isn't how it's supposed to be. and the world laughs. holds my hope by the throat. says: but this is how it is"

#darkacademia #quotes #poetry #aesthetic #it is what you think it is #it is what it is #it is done #hope #grief #whatishope

[darkacademic42]

"Marriage. More good women have been lost to marriage than to war. Famine, disease, and disaster. You have talent, darling. Don't squander it."

-Cruella de Vil

#quotes #feminism #whoneedstobemarried #knowyourworth #girlpower #girls run the world #girlsrule #tumblr girls #beautiful women #women

[darkacademic42]

"One time when I was a teenager an adult said to me "you know, we do talk about you when you're not there" and I never recovered"

-m_eye_nd

#i never recovered #and i never will #certainly not #poetry #i exist? #my existence impacts #i touch things...and they move #this is too much #im sorry #quotes #aesthetic #m_eye_nd #books

[darkacademic42]

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all of the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." -Jorge Luis Borges

#jorge luis borges #am i here #poetry #quotes #aesthetic #books #do i exist #i exist around me #whos to say #dark academic #darkacademia

[darkacademic42]

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde

#oscar wilde #quotes #poetry #aesthetic #darkacademia #dark academic #books #reading is an art #writing #who am i #who is in control #i am not myslef #i am not well

[darkacademic42]

"I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love." -Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

#darkacademia #quotes #aesthetic #poetry #books #sylvia plath #plath is right #by all means #love me #love #reading #writing #reading is an art

[darkacademic42]

Your handwriting. The way you talk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. -Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

#quotes #poetry #books #aesthetic #chuck palahniuk #you give yourself away #everything you do #bane of my existence is myself #i want to live

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"I've gotten so good about not flinching at the sound of your name that people don't know I'd throw myself mouth-open into the ocean for the chance to drown somewhere you might see it." -Trista Mateer, "Baggage", from Honeybee

#quotes #poetry #aesthetic #books #trista mateer #i dont want to #i still want you #i still love you #what is this life #what am i doing here #still

[darkacademic42]

How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I'm fond of flowers.

#aesthetic #poetry #quotes #flowers #reading #writing #i just wanna live #my existence is inevitable #do you see me

[darkacademic42]

What is one thing that you desire to say as a poet, but haven’t said yet? What does the future hold for you, if you could hold it?

I don't really know. I often find myself writing to the terrified versions of myself. And maybe all I really want to say—if anything at all—is that you (whoever you are) are not alone. Maybe because this is what some of the most important writers in my life have been telling me over and over again in their myriad and unique ways. I go back to the boy I once was, the boy who hid in the library during recess to read a book covered in his lap so no one will know he has betrayed “fun” for secrets. So no one will know he loves words. Because lovers of words were thought to be weak and effeminate. And effeminate boys were strange and strange things don't last very long in this world. So I read to find my own hand in the pages of books. In the future, I want to keep holding books. To touch myself on each page, saying “I am here. I am here. I am here.”

-Ocean Vuong interviewed by Sally Wen Mao for The Best merican Poetry. DEADPOETSWILDE

#ocean vuong #poetry #as a kid I loved to read #quotes #aesthetic #books #writing #deadpoets society #i am here #do you see me #i will never recover

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And I've noticed something different about people who change the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren't determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they're satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world.

Beth Clark

#beth clark #quotes #change #change in the world #if you want change #darka cademia #dark academia quotes #dark academic #aesthetic #its poetry #poetry

[darkacademic42]

“You don’t owe anybody anything” has done irreparable damage to the minds of the youth

This ordeal of living is collaborative. We owe each other as much as we are able to give. Come take ibuprofen with me.

#you dont owe them anything #do it for you #ibuprofen #it works wonders #the youth of today #living is an ordeal in itself #we must collaborate to survive

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Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

John Waters

#john waters #books #books and quotes #books & libraries #libraries #libraries are the best #i love to read #reading is an art #reading and writing

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I am tired. These people make me feel I have a hole in the middle of me.

D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent

#im so tired #dh lawrence #what we do in the shadows #i dont want to #i dont wanna be here anymore #quotes #dark academia #dark academic #dark academia quotes #aesthetic