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The Titanic, 1912 // Unknown Photographer

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[natelyn-blog]

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Oscar Wilde

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[lazyyogi]

When you abandon everything and come to Me on the mountaintop, I will show you the cosmos and you wont want to budge a single inch for the rest of eternity.

Shiva (via lazyyogi)

[natelyn-blog]

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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence” excerpt (via bookoasis)

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[andrewharlow]

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tenement children

two young children watching others play outside in christmas street off old kent road, south east london, december 21, 1946. photo by charles hewitt

[natelyn-blog]

By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s (by National Library NZ on The Commons)

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[natelyn-blog]

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

They reciprocated the great and saving lie—-that our love for things is greater than our love FOR our love of things—-willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing the fictions necessary for life.

Everything is Illuminated (via xdesecrate-thru-purityx)

[natelyn-blog]

Marilyn, I'm crying so much because of you. I just received your letter, and I am at a loss for words. ='( I love you, and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

I also giggled nonstop at this. ='I

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