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Met Tolstoy in a dream.

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…she was an apparition, she signaled that all the prophecies had been accomplished, her gown was blacker than if it had actually been black, if it had actually been a gown.

– Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

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every other consideration fell away. Maybe it was this purposefulness which got him through the blood-letting alive, though bullets filled the air like flies. His very indifference was a kind of blessedness. What he failed to notice, failed in turn to notice him. Thus he went unscathed through the heart of the battle

Clive Barker, Weaveworld [1987]

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Enough things have happened. No more things for a while. Thank you.

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“The world was full of young men who accepted their destinies lightly the way one wears a wristwatch, without much conscious thought. But his destiny was a plaster cast.”

— Yukio Mishima, The Frolic of the Beasts

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Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel

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…and her end was in darkness. She moved from one mystery into another.

– Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

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Louis Wain 's Poem with illustrations from illustrated London News, 1895

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“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candor in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.”

— Brideshead Revisited

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absolutely obsessed with this poorly placed sticker

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Whimsigoth Pattern | Camille Chew

Available on Society6

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Before The Sun Sets, Daniel Gerhartz

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It was getting light outside. The new grey pale light came into the room, making the candle desolate, making the figures into different ghosts.

– Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

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