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academia-lucifer · 2 days
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
— John Green.
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corpsebibliophile · 2 days
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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stanleyscubrick · 7 months
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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde
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learnelle · 1 year
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Flower details
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shakespearesdaughters · 7 months
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dionysian-mystery · 2 years
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The Castle by Franz Kafka
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luxus-aeterna · 1 year
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bacchanale
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espadascomolabios · 3 months
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days lately, spent all between tea, music, books, plants and soft sunlight
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embrace-alien · 3 months
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Sunsets in tonalist paintings
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rainreads · 7 months
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-Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron.
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iridessence · 11 months
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classical motifs in the Pierre ballroom
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academia-lucifer · 1 month
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde.
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corpsebibliophile · 4 months
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"Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, but sometimes it's incomparable in other ways. Sometimes it's heaven that the false fire of imagination could never capture."
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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stanleyscubrick · 8 months
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the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson
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learnelle · 1 year
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affectionate paintings
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shakespearesdaughters · 6 months
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
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