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i love when poetry does that (makes every moment of my life stack on top of one another and sit on my heart until i am sure every cell in my body remembers it is alive again)

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When Madeline Miller said "Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again"

And when Shakespeare said "And make death proud to take us"

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Watch me take a book out with me but not to read it. only to have it as some form of comfort, a personal gravity, something that keeps me grounded like some little child with their favorite blanket

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On all levels except physical I'm a renaissance painting in a library

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When Ocean Vuong said "They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it " and when

Homer said " Gods envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed "

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Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage

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has a breakdown about what a lonely life it is. goes for a walk with headphones in. purchases a beverage at the supermarket. you know how it goes

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richard papen was so real for being more upset at his friends not inviting him to a drug fuelled orgy than finding out they killed someone at said event

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Reading If We Were Villains is to realize how much the characters in The Secret History don’t like each other.

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I aspire to be like francis. you see a very attractive man, what are you going to do? start a conversation like a normal human being? of course not. let's ask him, in Latin, if he wants to go to bed with you

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I just love how a new month comes and the Tumblr hive mind posts august related poetry

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Fr tho she was dumb😭

I knew I was the problem when I started thinking that my high school English teacher was not smart enough to understand my essays.

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I knew I was the problem when I started thinking that my high school English teacher was not smart enough to understand my essays.

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Beauty is Terror, whatever we call beautiful we quiver before it - Donna Tartt

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It's officially salt air and the rust on your door month! 🍂

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Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov. (12 January 1924) letters to Véra

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Dark academics only know how to do three things:

Obsess over The Secret History

Drink tea

Put Latin phrases in their Instagram bio