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Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939“

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Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "Why Is the Winter Light"

[Text ID: Empty me of the bitterness and disappointment of being nothing but myself]

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Booklist for all the Dark Academics:

[Dark Academia book recs of all the different kinds I could think of. It's a long journey. Buckle up.]

The Classic Dark Academic :

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Anything by the Brontë sisters

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (this book birthed Dark Academia)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Bram Stokers Dracula

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Maurice by EM Forster

Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Good Man is Hard to Find

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Othello by Shakespeare

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Poetry-lover Academic:

Poetry of Baudelaire

Odes of Keats (ALL OF THEM ARE A MUST READ)

Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (especially The Raven)

Shelley's Alastor, Prometheus Unbound, Masque of Anarchy

Kubla Khan by Coleridge

T.S Elliott's Wasteland

all Emily Dickinson poetry but especially 'I felt a funeral in my brain', 'Because I could not stop for death' (read them a thousand times already)

Pablo Neruda's Nothing but Death

Langston Hughes Poems

Tennyson's Lotos eater (underrated gem)

Sylvia Plath poems but special mentions to Lady Lazarus and the Bell jar

Paradise Lost by Milton (if you want to include something about the Devil in your list)

Poems by Sappho

The Contemporary Dark Academic:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (the origin of Dark Academia)

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody (could recommend it a hundred times)

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Girls are all so nice here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Likeness by Tana French

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

One of us is lying by Karen Mcmanus

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Plot by Jean Hanff

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Conversion by Katherine Howe

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Quaint and Curious Volume

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Lying Games by Ruth Ware

Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt

The Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Bad Habits by Charleigh Rose

Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison

Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Queer Dark Academic:

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (yes, yes, yes it's the gay shit)

Notes on a Scandal (What was she thinking?) by Zoë Heller

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (lesbian vampire, hell yeah!)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Maurice by EM Forster

Christabel by Coleridge

Poems by Sappho

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody

The Dark Romantic Academic:

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Likeness by Tana French

The Temple House by Rachel Donohue

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Mythological Dark Academic:

(pardon me for my cluelessness)

I have not really read much about mythology but if Norse mythology is the area of your interest, Neil Gaiman is the God of it. (aka not only Good Omens and American Gods, but also the book 'Norse Mythology')

The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

Ovid's Metamorphoses for Greek mythology enthusiasts

[Remember: Some of these books have dark academia as their major aspect but most of them have dark academia as their minor aspect, and many of them have been put into the list because I got a dark academia kind of vibe from them. Moreover these books have a lot more to offer than just Dark Academia, even if we ignore that aspect, these books are just great pieces of literature. This list is entirely created out of my own reading researches, friendly recommendations, and book recs from reddit, pinterest and the internet in general. If I have gone wrong somewhere or if you want me to add something new, feel free to drop an ask.]

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‘sappho’ - charles auguste mengin (1877)

ransacked to the waist, hounded under gales. of black hair, eyes burdened with longing, you are left behind, the lyre in your hand. fretted with the chords of the sea. - andrew miller

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"Một số người thích bạn vì bạn xinh đẹp, thông minh và tài giỏi. Thế nhưng một số người lại thích bạn chỉ vì họ từng thấy bạn khóc, chứng kiến bạn đau khổ, biết rằng cuộc sống của bạn rất khó khăn và tầm thường. Thích bạn kể cả khi bạn ương bướng không ngoan, vẫn sẵn sàng xoè tay tặng bạn vài viên kẹo."

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#suutam #trích dẫn

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There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.

Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (via thoughtkick)

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“Isn’t it crazy? That the person you will marry someday is walking around on earth right now, just waiting for you.”

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#suutam

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and the sun kissed her

like no one ever did

that day, she fell in love

not with the magnificent Paris

not with the girl she has in her heart

but with something else,

maybe it's how the sun kissed her forehead

maybe it's how they touched her dried eyes

maybe it's how she realized she can't have what she wants

but things were good

at least,

she fell for something that could give her the warmth she has always look for

in the crowd

in this magnificent crowd.

#poemsbyme #poetry #thơ #words #sunset #literature #romantic academia #paris

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Chuyện tình cảm đôi khi cũng như thời tiết vậy, tất cả mọi ngày không thể đều là ngày nắng được, nhưng chúng ta có thể chia sẻ một chiếc dù và cùng nhau vượt qua ngày giông bão.

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Em sẽ quên tất cả những thứ thuộc về tôi chứ?

Tôi vẫn luôn mong mình không cần phải tự hỏi những câu tương tự nữa. Tôi không cần những điều tuyệt vời giữa hai ta sẽ trở thành quá khứ. Hãy cứ để nó như chưa từng tồn tại. Cũng đừng trao cơ hội cho những vết thương nhói lên mỗi mùa gió về.

Thật lòng tôi mong em sẽ yên bình.

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“Nhớ nhung một ai đó thật sự là một chuyện rất bi thương, nhất là khi biết rằng mình có lẽ sẽ không bao giờ có cơ hội gặp lại người đấy nữa.”

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I don’t know what we are. I just know that it’s not together.

- Ranata Suzuki

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Ngày hôm nay mình khóc ba lần chỉ vì một người, tình yêu đúng là khủng khiếp thật.

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Không phải nói, kiếp trước ngoảnh đầu năm trăm lần, kiếp này mới đổi được một lần gặp gỡ sao?

Đáng tiếc là, kiếp này tôi đã để lỡ năm trăm lần ngoảnh đầu của kiếp trước, lãng phí một lần gặp cậu ở kiếp này.

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Khi bạn làm rơi một cái ly hoặc đĩa xuống sàn thì nó sẽ vỡ loảng xoảng.

Khi cửa sổ bị vỡ, chân bàn bị gãy hay khi một bức ảnh rơi từ trên tường xuống, chúng đều tạo ra tiếng động.

Nhưng với trái tim bạn, khi vỡ thì nó hoàn toàn im lặng. Bạn sẽ nghĩ vì nó quan trọng như vậy nên nó sẽ tạo ra tiếng động lớn nhất thế giới hoặc ít nhất cũng phải là một tiếng kêu vang báo hiệu như tiếng cồng hay tiếng chuông. Nhưng nó lại lặng lẽ và bạn gần như ước gì có một tiếng động nào đó làm bạn quên đi nỗi đau.

- Nếu em thấy anh bây giờ | Cecelia Ahern

Phim: 500 days of Summer (2009)

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Dạo này thời tiết ở đâu cũng nắng nóng quá, mọi người có ổn không?

12-4-20