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“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via minervastudying)

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“You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good.” - Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight

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You became shadows. Deprived of reality. As I myself became unreal,

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I think of drinking life, but I am burnt,

Maria Banus, tr. by Matei Calinescu, from Joy: Poems; “Eighteen,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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For hundreds of years, your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckages of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished, Support will arrive soon.”

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” Quote by Sylvia Plath

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my esteemed rival,

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Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

Albert Camus (via quotemadness)

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“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?” - Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

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“You’ll understand why storms are named after people.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf (via quotemadness)

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Things you learn from studying ancient literature:

A lot of people are convinced that they’re living in the worst timeline. They mope and write stuff about it pretty frequently.

Old people hate what the youth are doing these days. That’s one thing that hasn’t changed in 5,000 years.

Xenophobia is found in almost every culture in existence

Women are always angry about not being allowed to stab things

Strong man with sharp stick good.

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Suggestions to celebrate Oscar Wilde’s birthday

Fling yourself on a divan

Look at your own reflection for 2 hours to marvel in the beauty of your sins

Write forbidden books

Let chocolate melt on the tip of your tongue

Don’t interact with straight people

Eat the petals of a sunflower

Change your opinion on philosophy and attack your former mentor

Wear silk on bare skin

Put an easel in your room and start a painting. Don’t finish it!

Wait for the moon come out. Cry at her beauty

Date a Libra (bonus points if you’re a libra yourself)

Write compromising gay letters

Drench yourself in french perfume

Put on lipstick and kiss marble or the surface of a mirror

If you have to interact with straight people: be insufferably snobby and say promiscuous, contradictory things that border on nonsensical

Have a complicated relationship with the Catholic Church