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I defy the stars; I defy Heaven and Hell. The laws of the universe say that the man I love is lost to me. I say: Watch me save him.

He saved me first, you know - c.k (via widowbitesandhearingaids)

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nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin

— Sophokles (Sophocles), from Antigone tr. Anne Carson

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“I am already nothing. I am already burning.”

— Sophokles, from An Oresteia: Elektra (tr. Anne Carson)

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“i, like the stars, know what it means to be devoured from the inside out. i know what it means to be on fire & not emit any light. here i am / trying to be less volatile, less violent. i’m saying that”

— Eliel Vera, A short list of stars that died this year, published in Rising Phoenix Review (via manticoreimaginary)

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“Even if some god makes me suffer on the wine-dark sea, I shall endure this within me, for I have a heart patient in hardship. Already I have suffered and endured much on waves and in war. Add this, too, to those.”

— Homer, Odyssey V.221-224 (via manticoreimaginary)

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““Forgive me my grief that spans out acres. I have love the size of a church, & no one to give it to. Do I cut my hair? Do I harvest all of my beginnings? I touch my teeth with my tongue to remember the sharp can fade. Someone learns my name. I fall asleep.”

— Ana Carrizo, “Reflections” (via elvedon)

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“And in the end, we were all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via aurelle)

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When you see it…

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“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus (via quotemadness)

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“Rome is built on ruins And is quite breathtaking; What makes you think You can’t be too?”

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(via slyherin)

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“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

— Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018) 

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Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin (via quotemadness)

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Dude imagine the shadow puppet shows

if i was a pirate captain i would get a movie projector and play a movie on the big sails every friday night for my boys to kick back and enjoy some time off unless we were under attack

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You’d lose your mind trying to understand mine.

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someone created a random generator that creates randomized inspirational quotes overlaid on random images in a soothing fashion and each and every image is comic gold

it’s pretty much the best thing ever and here are some of my favorites so far

so good

I’m getting this one made into a motivational poster for my home office

PLEASE GO MAKE SOME OF YOUR OWN RIGHT NOW