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“Do you imagine at night someone going to bed the very moment you are going to bed? Turning out the light? And isn’t it so quiet you swear the heart is telepathic. Isn’t it—”

— Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Eros in His Striped Shirt

not 2 sound whiny but i wish more attention was given to the importance of art and literature and philosophy and other humanities again so they'll return to being a really great part of what shapes a decade or an era instead of being seen as useless because they don't fit into the capitalist ideal of a productive society

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

— Ernest Hemingway

“…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

Ruminations on Godhood & Girlhood: How does a girl become real?

Kristin Chang// Mary Queen of Scots dir. Josie Rourke// Hippolytos translated by Anne Carson// Agnes of God, John Pielmeyer// Romeo and Juliet dir. Franco Zefferelli// Richard Siken// Gwendolyn Macewen// Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn Black Madonna by Magdalena Walulik//Weeping Madonna statue//The Archetypes” Marina and the Diamonds// Joan of Arc mural// Kristin Chang// The Philadelphia Story dir. George Cukor// Nikki Giovanni

i wanna marry someone who makes me feel like i'm at an art museum, or a library, or a concert, all at once, art all around me. only that the person is the art i stare at

“It’s not insane to imagine that sometimes even horrible people are searching for a way out of their own darkness.”

— Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me (via thebookquotes)

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Don’t let them cut away your thorns in order to deem you a better rose.”

— heartlines-and-stanzas (via wnq-writers)

“I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”

— Rick Moody (via coral)

“Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via books-n-quotes)

“I suffered holy pains.”

— Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?”

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“Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.”

— Nina Dul (via thoughtkick)

Dreams flooded over me; I lay weary and hopeless in my bed.

Franz Kafka

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

Grief

I walk ahead silently;

I can hear my shoes;

Clicking as they reach the ground.

Click clack,

Click clack.

I suppose I should be crying

I swear to you I'm trying

But my eyes are fully dry.

There's too much inside of me

But not enough to come out.

Ironically, I will never be able to truly articulate what goes on within me, what consumes me…ever.

What a marvelous feeling it would be,

if we could say exactly how we felt.

What a monumental victory.

What a terrifying thought.

- Wit, Oathbringer