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*completes a book that totally ruined me* *takes deep breath* *eyes still glossy* **this was the best book I've ever read**

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Another diem I failed to carpe Mr Keating would be so disappointed

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she's a 10 but she reads classic literature to escape the modern world

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feeling that oppressive urge to have a group of friends who have weekly dinners at someone’s apartment, flock together on campus, debate literature and philosophy over wine soaked nights, study in the library together long after everyone’s gone, write each other letters when we’re apart for the holidays, run about the woods at night and be utterly, utterly free.

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i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved

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Oh to live a Pinterest-worthy lifestyle

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“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”

― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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the feminine urge to run away to a foreign country and spend endless days in a library

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Concept Playlists

Antihero: You’re a terrible example, so not totally useless. It’s been a while since you decided to cause some mischief, so today must go off without a hitch. Will you abandon your friends? Will you take down the government? Ah well.

Contemplate Crimes: Your thoughts drift off as you while away time in the library, thinking of another life. Darker, perhaps. It’s not like your thoughts aren’t dark anyway.

Post-Apocalyptic Bunker: The world ended and everyone who survived was driven underground. There’s very little left on the surface and society hasn’t advanced enough to be producing music in tiny metal boxes several hundred feet below ground; but you remember. You don’t stop humming.

Academic Burnout: Late nights, early mornings, messy notes, and the fading buzz of caffeine. I’m so tired. Give me an A.

Spring Turns Summer: Waking up in a field is a soft feeling. You vaguely remember feeling loved. Blowing on a dandelion. You’ve been on this solo picnic for a while now, and it’s time to turn back, but maybe you’ll wait for the sun to go down just a little more.

Moonchild: Study music

The Sun And The Stars: Sunlight on the bedsheets, cookies in the oven. Distant strains of music pour through your room. You’re strong and ready to start the new day.

Pink: Songs that feel pink for whenever you learn how to drive. Fun music for the highway, mellow music for the red lights. You pass the aux cord to your friend who hasn’t stopped listening to Dua Lipa for since the meme. You know the one.

Mythical Creatures: The sirens were the ones who tempted you from the little rock you clung to. You jumped into the depths willingly, and your vision blurs. You can just make out a dishonest smile before something tugs at you.

If We Were Villains: You watched the theatre students. Something was wrong, and you were going to find out what. (Typical dark academia)

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“I dream a dream that dreams back at me”

- A mercy (Toni Morrison)

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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure.

Mary Shelley

(guys can we get to 28k by tomorrow? Please 🥺?)

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I really enjoy the genre of “older literature featuring a really smart but deranged college student who does something really fucked up with his knowledge and has multiple breakdowns over it for the rest of the story.” one because it is entertaining and two it encapsulates the college experience in a way nothing else does.

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"fuck you my child is completely fine"

your child reads classic literature for fun

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when dostoyevsky said your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing and when shakespeare said this above all: to thine own self be true