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“What would you do for me?”

“Anything, probably.”

If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio // The Wicker King, K. Ancrum // The King’s Men, Nora Sakavic

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Sarah Bernhardt - Ophelia 

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And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

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"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

-If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

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"She never asked me once about the wrong I did, even though she knew, she always did."

Fillipa Kosta

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“It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”   — Donna Tartt, The Secret History 

Charles Macaulay / Camilla Macaulay / Henry Winter / Richard Papen / Francis Abernathy / Edmund Corcoran / Julian Morrow 

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spring, 1931

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“art is a luxury” is such a disgustingly capitalist concept. the need to make and engage with art, to have beauty and creation, is absolutely fundamental to humans. art should be a human right.

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if we were villains m l rio // dirty valentine richard siken 

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richard siken / salma deera / jen mazza / joy ladin

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the drugs don’t work, they just make you worse, but i know i’ll see your face again

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richard papen has the same energy as 15 years-old girls who think veins are hot

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“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”

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Note written in my used copy of The Secret History.

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the metropolitan museum of art, new york city, august 30th, 2020

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what emotion do you write from

homosexuality