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szm17 · 4 months

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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

— Albert Camus, The Fall

Decided to repost this moodboard since I really wanted my plant illustration to be a part of it!

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persephonediary · 1 year

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He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

#emily brontë #persephonediary #wuthering heights #l’art de l’amour #the bronte sisters #romanticism #romantic academia #the brontës #classic literature quotes #classic lit #romanticising #love quotes #tragedy #star crossed lovers #twin flame #not meant to be

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 9 months

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"-- that look, full of love she gave him, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame."

~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (tr. Constance Garnett, Leonard J. Kent, & Nina Berberova)

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fanciestghost · 9 months

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"No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don't love me, I would rather die then live - I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen."

Jane Eyre so real tbh.....

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)

#not a good mentality but so real #jane eyre #charlotte bronte #ouija board ghost #classic literature #classic lit #classic literature quotes

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chloepiphany · 8 months

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[Victor Hugo in a letter to Edouard Thierry (dated 23 September, 1843) / Funérailles de Victor Hugo – la veillée sous l’arc de triomphe (1885) by Georges Jules Victor Clairin]

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hornyforpoetry · 1 year

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Five foolish quotes from Feste The Fool (”Twelfth Night” // Shakespeare)

1. ” Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours ”

2. ” For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit ”

3. ” Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another ”

4. ” Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them ”

5. ” Foolery, sir, Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abuseddoes walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere ”

”Pierrot Le Fou” // 1718-1719 // Jean-Antoine Watteau

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literate-bitch-boy · 11 months

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When Shelley said "It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." and when Camus said "But perhaps some day, when we are ready to die of exhaustion and ignorance, I shall be able to disown our garnish tombs and go and stretch out in the valley, under the same light, and learn for the last time what I know."

#percy bysshe shelley #classic lit #classic literature #adonias #albert camus #classic literature quotes #quotes #return to tipasa #dark academia #dark academia quotes

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sailingthesargasso · 2 years

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“We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth.… It has no day.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise