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Chat is it possible to read a book without annotating and underlining every single page, but the book in question is If We Were Villains.

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Ended up underlining more than half of the last chapter of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

RIP Albert Camus, you would've loved tumblr girlies who are questioning their relationship with God and have an unhealthy attachment to the concept of death.

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girls don’t want boyfriends, girls want their fatal flaw, a morbid longing for the picturesque, to cause them to snap because “what could be more terrifying and beautiful to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”

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what studying literature feels like

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A must read to understand the world that surrounded the characters of the secret history and the three people who got a character based on them.

Also, warning, you will develop an obsession with befriending Donna Tartt in her Bennington years even more than you already must've after reading the secret history. You're welcome.

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For those albert camus, doestoevsky, kafka ppl.

A nice blend of nihilism, absurdism, and existentialism.

The Playlist I'd want for to be my magnum opus.

Or

A playlist to smoke your last cigarette to.

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Ready.

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My request to the make of wish foundation would be for Donna Tartt to personally spill all the tea to me

My Roman empire is the fact that we will never know the depths of The Secret History without Donna Tartt dropping a 10-hour explanation video where she decodes the reason for each and every line.

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Just bought "if we were villains." gonna go get more insufferable now<3

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RIP Henry Winter I wish men with a complex relationship with religion, classics, and homoeroticism were real.

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My Roman empire is the fact that we will never know the depths of The Secret History without Donna Tartt dropping a 10-hour explanation video where she decodes the reason for each and every line.

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If I smoked a cigarette for every time the marauders (mostly sirius) said "our moony" or "my moony," I'd be dead before reggie could even think about going for his little swim.

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I hate how all Secret History related-posts on social media are obsessed with the book's aesthetic because did you read it?? The Secret History is filled with deceptions and hidden values for the sake of the group's aestheticism for God's sake! The literal opening of the book is about Richard's 'fatal flaw' which is his obsession with the picturesque!! Just once I want to see a TikTok or a tweet about TSH analysis rather than some Pinterest-ass mood board.

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Is it really a good book if there aren't any characters having complex relations with substance abuse and god?

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"What do you want for your birthday"

"Whatever possessed Donna Tartt when she wrote The Secret History"

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Starting my English degree in a few months, will I get a Mr Keatings or Julian Morrow. Stay updated to find out<3

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Just rewatched the goldfinch, so I wanted to say this once again.

I love you, boris pavlikovsky. You are THE cunt.