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professionalintrovert · 3 months

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Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me.

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface ❄️📚

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inoue-miu · 1 year

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For once, I would love to actually feel in love with life. I always write about it, fantasise about it, but if I’m gonna be honest, I’ve never felt it.

I don’t know what it’s like to enjoy life, to live because you actually want to, to do things because you actually enjoy them. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like a human, more like a being that has to do things, provide, fix and endure. I don’t think I have lived for me yet, I always do what will make others feel good. I don’t even know who I am. Whenever I’m alone, it feels like I’m sitting next to a stranger. I want to get to know them, but they won’t talk to me or even look at me. I am 23 and I don’t know if those years are even mine to begin with. I’m 23 and the person I see in the mirror is a complete stranger to me. -I.M-

#quotes #aesthetic #life #sadness #alone #hope #books and libraries #dreamer #faith #sad #dream #lonely #poems #books and poems #poets #excerpt from a book i'll never write #writers on tumblr #writers

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lucidloving · 7 months

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 7 months

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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

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reallybadblackoutpoems · 6 months

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imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

#chekhov #schrodinger #occam #the three genders #hope everyone has a good halloweekend #and a good hallowtuesday #watched the 1979 nosferatu #it was silly #feel free to recommend more german films #anyway #blackout poetry #blackout poem #author #book #poetry

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academia-lucifer · 27 days

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

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words-at-night · 6 months

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jayvespertine · 3 months

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— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

#annotated books #bookstagram #poetry books #fictional men #fiction #fan fiction #poetry lovers #aesthetic poetry #poetry #dark academic aesthetic #romantic academia #romantic #dark academia #literature #quotes #poem #light academia #romance #love quotes

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 10 months

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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

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resqectable · 1 month

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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.

Book of serenity

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professionalintrovert · 6 months

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Utterly lost and yet strangely alive, the whole of our human existence —

Louise Glück, “Quince Tree”

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rainreads · 5 months

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"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

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lucidloving · 4 months

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 8 months

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{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}

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reallybadblackoutpoems · 10 months

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meditations on first philosophy (1641) - rene descartes

"who give a shit"

#rene descartes #ok #so this is a reference to that post #bc i cant stop saying it #sorry i havent been active #ive been working on an opera #and have been having like p bad health issues #but its ok #learning to crochet a minecraft frog #idk if itll be like any good #whatever life is love anyway #blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

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wedarkacademia · 2 months

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