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saying "are you haunted? are you fucking possessed?" is my favorite way to express my taking issue with someone else's behavior. like brother you are acting so strange and unlike yourself that the only explanation is you are being tormented by a spirit of some kind.

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"the tired sunsets and the tired people-it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all".

–Charles Bukowski

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“you’re so pretty,” okay write poetry about me then.

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You were the sun and I your Icarus; the more I loved you, the more I withered a bit

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“Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

#spilled words

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mood: a wealthy 18th century woman who needs to lie down for hours after anything remotely distressing happens

#me

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Euripides, “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

#spilled words

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enjolras.

#de elendige

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Lucca, Italy.

#ins and outs

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balliol college, oxford | october 2018

#ins and outs

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Evening Silence

Wilhelm Kotarbinski

#breath of art

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I was in a summery mood so I made a moodboard~

#an idea of beauty

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#everything is perfect

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#ins and outs

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Denise Levertov, from Breathing the Water: Poems; “The Well,” publ. c. 1987

#spilled words

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if you read les miserables and did not interpret jean valjean’s story as a love letter to love and kindness and our ability to change and as a portrayal of deeply universal human suffering and you could not to relate that then I really don’t know what to tell you

#de elendige