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i want to be a vampire,,,not bc of the aesthetic but bc i could live a thousand years & major in so many subjects & just learn.

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most crucial personality indicators

1. when u binge-watch tv, do u skip the intro theme song or watch it?

2. did u prefer dinosaurs or monsters as a kid?

3. how many and what kind of collections do u keep?

4. ya’ll r gonna hate this but ur major actually says a lot about u as a person. whats ur major?

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” - Edgar Allan Poe

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IN THIS HOUSE WE celebrate black women sculptors because Dark Academia has a slight Michelangelo fetish and sometimes it’s good to mix things up. 
Left to Right: 
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller & Elizabeth Catlett, Selma Burke & Simone Leigh, Edmonia Lewis & Augusta Savage

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Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”

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Brussels is glowing Part Deux - lovely little bookstore we walked into

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i am so determined to fall more in love with life. intentionally romanticising the walks i am on, the birds chirping, the blooming nature around me, the water in my cup of tea turning from a light peach tone to a dark pink, the poetry i write, the things i am learning, my handwriting, dozing off while sitting in ront of my window, all of it and more. I have to take a closer look at the little things that make my heart beat faster.

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dark academia in film

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Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

— Albert Einstein (via quotemadness)

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“The history of literature is the history of the human mind.“ 

- WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, “Chateaubriand’s English Literature”, Critical and Historical Essays

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François Martin-Kavel  (French, 1861-1931)

Alexander Roslin (Swedish, 1718-1793)

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— since our story is a crime itself | g.f.

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spending time reading classical novels, playing with a cat, wearing vintage dresses, collecting flowers near the house, watering plants, wandering in the nearest park and talking with myself loudly, being at home and feeling safe