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[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“if i were you-” you’d collapse and burst into flames if you were me.

[blossomed-blog]

[philosophybits]

“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

[honigimohr]

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wordsnquotes)

[le-immorte]

cM:| V O L U S P Á   by   W A R D R U N A

[unwomanly-deactivated20201108]

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“…my endless, secret wound.”

— Nikos Kavadhias, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “Marabou,”

[guiltygirl]

there is no damage you can do to me that hasn’t already been done.

[eskidihayaller]

[joliepoupee-deactivated20220202]

“Brutal perhaps, but at the same time delicate, very delicate.”

— D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Rainbow,” wr. c. 1919

[vicodin-white]

“What are you? A chaos.”

— Anaïs Nin, Fire: From a Journal of Love (via goodreadss)

[blossomed-blog]

[luthienne]

“Inside, / A terrible silence / As though everything had died”

— May Sarton, from Letters from Maine: New Poems; “Shell”

[fy-perspectives]

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

— Plutarch

[v-irgogh]

[philosophybits]

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[shisasan]

There’s nothing like books waiting to ruin you completely, stories that tear you apart only to leave you more whole than before.