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“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to its purpose.”   ―  Oscar Wilde

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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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“The past is always with us, so it’s time I stopped running.”

— Bridget (Blake Lively) from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

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SKAM ITALIA FINAL SPEECH TRANS:

[the speech is a letter that Eva wrote to Gio but never had the courage to send him. In the final scene Gio finally gets to read it while she’s asleep in his arms]

“42721 hours.

That’s how many hours have passed since the first time we saw each other. I counted them earlier today.

The first time was the first day of school. I saw you from afar while they were forming our class and in my heart i hoped they would say your name. Then they did it.

So we became classmates, friends, secret lovers, then boyfriend and girlfriend.

And in the end, just two people simply ignoring each other everyday.

When we went to the lake to celebrate the 100 days before the end of the school, i looked at you, thinking how we don’t talk to each other anymore.

But, at the same time, looking around me i thought that without me and you, that group of people that slowly formed around us would have never existed.

People that would have never remotely imagined to be in the same room and that now love each other to death, and, did somehow grow up together. (*n.b Eva used the word “amare” which is the translation of love but is usually used for relationships or family. The verb “ to love” for friends is “volere bene”)

Sometimes i ask myself if we all are even gonna see each other after high school ends, I even ask myself if we’re all gonna pass the final exam, or some of us will fail.

Who knows if we’re still gonna see each other after we’re all gonna be in different universities, different cities, different streets.

Probably we’re gonna lose each other little by little, without even noticing.

We’re gonna think that we’re still in touch because we watch each other stories, end sometimes make pizza parties that half of us will ditch at the last second.

...but, let’s try not to make this happen, not to waste all of the tears, the fights, the pranks, all of the messes we did together.

Fuck, let’s try it.

Once you wrote in a paper that everyone of us is convinced to move towards the sky, without noticing that the roof stands in the middle: but i was thinking that if we jump all together maybe we can break that fucking roof.

Do you wanna try?”

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Martedì, 20:57

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and that’s on what? that’s on endgame excellence

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that laughter haunts me still.

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ancient classics

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I really do be missing coffee shops and romanticising life as I walk down busy city streets.

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“Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”

- Austin Kleon

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i am once again skam italia’s bitch

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Tolstoy has two settings when it comes to names:

1. Everyone’s got nine different names (War and Peace)

2. Both the husband and the lover are named Alexei (Anna Karenina). Everyone else is named Nikolai.

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Things Pierre Bezukhov does in the first 50 pages of War and Peace

Snubs an old woman

Alienates his social superiors with his enthusiasm for Napoleon (who is kinda the enemy right now)

Takes a stranger’s hat by mistake and just stands there fiddling with it

Gets flustered trying to comfort his best friend’s wife and tells her “Calm yourself. Good-bye.”

Makes two conflicting promises to two different friends

Philosophizes his way out of responsibility

Casually pulls the frame out of a window with his bare hands

Witnesses a reckless bet involving a bottle rum and a third-story window and goes “Cool. I’m gonna try that.”

Waltzes with a live bear

Gets thrown out of Petersburg

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If she looks back at me and smiles on the next turn, she’ll be my wife. — War and Peace (1956) dir. King Vidor

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Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace (1956)

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Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace (1956)

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la belle personne is basically a dark academia aesthetic but in French