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Its not that I'm jealous or anything but the sight of Jupiter clinging with Venus is a lot to bear these nights..

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history is drenched in blood and breath takingly beautiful

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

-Franz Kafka

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i feel stilled by time, forbidden to move

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when Nizar Qabbani said, "The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it" it hit me so damn hard

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“Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever;”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”

― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch