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“And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said” by Wendy Xu

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A simple exchange

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when ozymandias king of kings tells u to look upon his works and despair but, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

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Halloween is coming & I am ready. #devil

Pauline Metternich in a Devil Costume 😈❤️

Scanned Drawing by Theodore Gudin 🖤

January 30, 1864 📜

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The passage of time & the facts of life are terrible things.

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Human beings in a mob. What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a god? What's a god to a non-believer, who dont believe in anything?

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What a terrible world,

what a beautiful world

And oh my God What a world you have made here What a terrible world, what a beautiful world What a world you have made here

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Seventeen & terminally fey. I wrote it down & threw it all away. Never gave a thought to what I'd paid. & you- all sybilline reclining in your pew. You tattered me, you tethered me to you. The things you would & wouldn't do. To tell the truth, I never had a clue.

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You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

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Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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You get your ass on the beach. I’ll be there waiting for you and I’ll tell you what to do. There ain’t anything in this plan that is going to go right.

- Colonel Paul R. Goode, in a pre-attack briefing to the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach, Normandy D-Day June 1944

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Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters