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The Invader and The Infiltrator. - Tate Collins and Miles Archer [Ugly Love]

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I don't know if that's because he doesn't like keeping someone around or if it's a sign that he's too difficult to be around. - Tate Collins [Ugly Love]

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The house is too damn small to fit all of my frustration and disappointment. - Miles Archer [Ugly Love]

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I come to the conclusion that his appearance is completely contradictory. It's as if two different creators were at war when he was envisioned. -Tate Collins [Ugly Love]

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She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the centre of a page. - Miles Archer [Ugly Love]

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"God gave me a lot of great things to accomplish in my life, and right now, I'm so far behind I ain't ever gonna die." - Cap [Ugly Love]

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I want!

The Secret History Audiobook on Cassette. Read by Robert Sean Leonard

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“you‘re so quiet” baby i’m not even here. i’m fantasizing about a book i read weeks ago. move on.

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That one scene in The Secret History where Charles is bitching about Henry deciding which book he should carry around while the FBI is investigating him has the exact same vibe as the “Kim, stop taking pictures of yourself, your sister is going to jail” clip from keeping up with the kardashians and you can’t convince me otherwise

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The Secret History Translation Masterlist

i was going to put this on a spam account but then decided to put it on a public one. who knows, maybe someone will benefit from it! if i’ve made any mistakes, do let me know

a moi. l’histoire d’une de mes folies (to me. the history of one of my follies or my turn. the tale of my madness)

quod erat demonstrandum (it can be shown)

cubitum eamus? (will you sleep with me?)

consummatum est (it is done)

hoi polloi. barbaroi [the many/majority. barbarian (person who doesn’t speak greek)]

bei nacht und nebel (at night and in fog)

deprendi miserum est (it is wretched to be found out)

khairei (hello)

bakchoi (initiates)

cuniculus molestus (annoying rabbit)

arrectis auribus (attentively/ears peeled)

dormir plutôt que vivre (sleep rather than live)

dans un sommeil aussi doux que la mort (in a sleep as sweet as death)

requiescat in pace (rest in peace)

n’est-ce pas (isn’t that so)

amor vincit omnia (love conquers all)

raison d’être (reason for existence)

nihil sub sole novum (there is nothing new under the sun)

quel plaisir der vous revoir (what a great pleasure to see you again)

genis gratus, corpore glabellus, arte multiscius, et fortuna opulentus (smooth-cheeked, soft-skinned, well-educated and rich)

dénouement (outcome)

salve, amice (hello, friend)

valesne? (are you well?)

quid est rei? (what is the matter?)

benigne dicis (i thank you)

bureau de tabac (tobacco store)

Χαλεπά τά καλά (beauty is harsh)

mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré! (oh, truly, i have wept too much!)

les aubes sont navrantes (the dawns are heartbreaking)

hinc illae lacrimae (hence those tears)

sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat (such eyes, such hands, such looks)

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Not everything that is faced can be changed.

But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Benjamin Franklin

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low-key funny tbh

The funniest part about the secret history is that richard didn't even want to be a classics major. He just didn't want to take a new language class. He was like "hey can I take greek? I already know some" and that weird mf julian was like "only if you join our cult"

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"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."

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currently reading the secret history, and if someone doesn’t come with me into the woods to tremble in nature’s beauty, I will waste away <3

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Dionysus [is] the Master of Illusions, who could make a vine grow out of a ship's plank, and in general enable his votaries to see the world as the world's not.

E.R. DODDS, The Greeks and the Irrational

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She would go with them tomorrow. Somebody would probably tell her that she didn't have to go, but she would end up going with them anyway.

The Secret History