audaces fortuna juvat ★

‘are you trying to be clever or something?’ ‘i don’t have to try ; i am clever’ - tommy judd // patere legem quam ipse fecisti

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I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood / I see that the elementary laws never apologize / (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.) / I exist as I am, that is enough, / If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. / One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to day or in ten thousand or ten million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. ★

I love you Walt Whitman.

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a lot of people love going on vacation to break their routine and feel different. i actually think it really beautiful to be able to carry on with a routine in a whole entire different place. that’s why i still take my laptop with me, especially if i’m leaving for more than a week because i want to be able to make music, check my emails, watch my tv series, blog and write. same goes for books and journals. those are always with me, vacation or not! ★

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éblouissant. ★

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sometimes i wish i could take drugs to experience limitless joy because sometimes the sadness feels endless. unfortunately i am too smart for my own good and would never take drugs

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organised my notion for a new chapter of my life… more to come very soon! ★

🎧 | Janice STFU — Drake.

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at the firm rn getting emotional every time one of my supervisors sends me an article for my thesis project… like, wow, this is the dream, this is it. i’ve never felt so happy and excited and scared at the same time. so acknowledged. ★

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Whitman paid for the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grasshimself[57] and had it printed at a local print shop during its employees' breaks from commercial jobs.[58] A total of 795 copies were printed.[59] No author is named; instead, facing the title page was an engraved portrait done by Samuel Hollyer,[60]but 500 lines into the body of the text he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander above men or women or apart from them, no more modest than immodest”. (source)

God, I love him so much.

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watching Plein Soleil during the heatwave. i find myself becoming less obsessive over the meaning of my life when i smile to others, say good morning to strangers, chat with my local barista, promote love and have debates with younger law students! ★

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this summer’s reads contain… ★ (and more to come)

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today I: cut my own hair a little, wore white, started reading Roland Barthes’ Système de la mode, worked out, listened to flying blue on loop ★

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everything I leave behind is an easter egg, a private joke between my past and future self. my name on my laptop is a reference to one of my favorite songs by Lana, and one of my fav characters from OUAT. my name on my phone is a reference to my favorite character from Another Country. I wear white and my Vivienne necklace as a reference to my favorite astrologer. I think about her a lot lately, she has suffered a lot. I write songs and name them after my favorite shows or niche references to Whitman, Bukowski or whatever poet I love. the way I sing is heavily influenced by the two artists that have shaped me as a person : Ariana Grande and Lana del Rey. my usernames are usually references to artists, songs, favorite words or poems. this blog's username is a reference to a short gothic story I wrote when I was in high school. I wouldn't have it any other way.

who am I if not a collection of everything I've ever loved?

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I mean yea… watch Shannon Kim videos is on my to-do list, what are you gonna do about it?

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if you see me saving pictures to pin them in my pinterest boards at the firm, mind your business. ★

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one of the most beautiful compliments I ever got was when my boyfriend snatched my phone from my shirt pocket and put it with the camera up before he switched it back and put it upside down (the way I usually do). I told him 'good, I always put it this way for privacy reasons' (I'm paranoid like that) and he said 'I know, you're logical.'

I still think about that.

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having a nabokov and cou cou intimates kind of summer this summer. ★ also yay finally reading a classic in french instead of english, who cheered? (but I lowkey regret it, it's so much better in English from what I've read…)