“And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.”
— Henry James (via quotemadness)
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“As Paul Hogan came dashing down the steps of London’s Tate Gallery in 1956 with a £7m Impressionist masterpiece under his arm after coolly unhooking it from its hanging place moments earlier, his picture was taken by a press photographer who happened to be waiting outside.” (independent.co.uk)
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Nature is a beautiful thing, but it’s better to have no dealings with human beings.
Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Juljan Fontana, wr. c. December 1838
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“Trust the overthinker who tells you they love you. They have, most assuredly, thought of every reason not to.”
— L.K. Pilgrim
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The fact that people actually listened to Greek philosophers is crazy. Imagine living in 300 B.C or something, sniffing bay leaves & this old dude comes to you and says "We are not living in the real world... This is just a Shadow World" and you say "aight"
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You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
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She was calmer at night.
Susanna Kaysen, from “Girl, Interrupted,” originally published c. 1993 (via violentwavesofemotion)
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just found out you have to write if you want something to be written……. feeling shocked, devastated, and blindsided. please respect my privacy and space during this time xx
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Loveliest throat of all sweet throats,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems of E. S. V. M.; “Memorial to D. C.,”
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An old photo of a place called Hell’s Cafe in Paris, which has since shut down.
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La Jalousie, Philippe Garrel (2013)
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