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beljar · 2 years

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This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1936

#george orwell #Keep the Aspidistra Flying #world literature #quotes #books and libraries #literary text #meaningless #death #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic art lit #existential dread

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amicus-noctis · 6 months

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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning." - Vincent Van Gogh

Painting: "Wheatfield with a Reaper" by Vincent van Gogh

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pagesofjasmine · 8 months

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Strange how old dusty libraries and stained pages of books makes you feel alive and fresh as new.

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yourgirlfoe · 1 year

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Ya'll ever go, "fuckin' hell, I know this smell!" and it's the smell of a February evening from 2017 ?

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thelostfilesofstudents · 23 days

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elysianmuses · 1 year

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The love language of annotating a book

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zaydalix · 7 months

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- Ivan Turgenev

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panthermouthh · 11 days

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“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

#frankenstein #victor frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic art #gothic lit #mary shelley #lucifer #the fallen angel #we all saw this one coming #I’m very happy w how this turned out #and yes I used colour for once and not just in the creature eyes go me #I thought about doing just the cropped version of this painting but I can’t ever make anything easy for myself #I’m glad people seem to be enjoying this series #which I guess has morphed in to Frankenstein But in Classical Art #based on the fallen angel by Alexandre Cabanel #anyway it’s Friday!! I’m gonna watch a movie and have some good food :)))#my art

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artemisyates · 6 months

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Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

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gothic-thriller-dawn · 5 months

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#gothic #gothic aesthetic #dark aesthetic #dark academia #aestheitcs #vampires #dark academic aesthetic #dark acadamia quotes #book quotes #mary shelley #classic literature #literature #source: pinterest #gothic literature #gothic lit art #books are my friends

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beljar · 2 years

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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929

#william faulkner #the sound and the fury #landscape #literary text #books and libraries #quotes #world literature #river #classic art lit #lights #english novel

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 9 months

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Jane Austen, Persuasion

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mrhyde-mrseek · 2 months

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While I continue to procrastinate on SMS I think y’all need to see the copy of Frankenstein I just bought because I’m OBSESSED with it

First of all, gorgeous cover art.

Then you get to the actual PAGES, and

LOOK AT THAT

IT’S SO GORGEOUS

THIS LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE FROM PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

THE CREATURE LOOKS SO FUCKING COOL RAAAAHHHH

#can you tell i’m autistic #frankenstein #frankenstein book #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #frankenstein art #adam frankenstein #victor frankenstein #the artist is william o’connor btw #gothic literature #gothic lit #classic literature #classic lit

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depressed-linguist · 1 year

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secretmellowart · 16 days

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Some thoughts on Cosette's fashion! I think it's really interesting that Cosette is meant to a bright joyful dawn-like character but she always dresses in black. The first dress she receives when she leaves the Thenardiers is a small black mourning gown, and I wonder if that has something to do with it. Anyway...Goth Cosette?

#les mis #cosette #les miserables #character design #classic lit #my les mis art

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wedarkacademia · 1 year

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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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