"When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own."
- Haruki Murakami
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
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“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
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“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
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The academic urge to study every ancient mythology.
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D.L. Smith
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― Horace, The Odes of Horace
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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin
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Interior of the nave, Church of the Gesù, Rome.
Artist: Bruce Coleman
⚜ Baroque month on @mynocturnality
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"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
-Blaise Pascal
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“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
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