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From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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"Beauty is often spoke of as though it only stirs lust and admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Desire for them is in part a desire for a noble destiny, and beauty can seem like a door to meaning as well as to pleasure. And yet such people are often nothing extraordinary except in their effect on others. Exceptional beauty and charm are among those gifts given by the sinister fairy at the christening. They give the bearer considerable sway over others, which can keep them so busy being a sort of siren on the rocks where others shipwreck that they forget that they themselves need to figure out where they are going."

Rebecca Solnit, from "Abandon", A Field Guide to 'Getting Lost

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

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Im getting Goncharov tattooed...

obsessed with this quote by Norma Larson in Family Ties: Essays on the Mafia in Film, 1993

#goncharov #martin scorsese #robert de niro

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451 Fahrenheit_Ray bradbury

#ray bradbury #fahrenheit 451 #books #book quotes

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Some YouTube video credit to owner

#quotes #capatilism #cult of society

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The dragons of Eden_ carl sagan

#carl sagan #the dragons of eden #books #book quotes #humam intelligence #human brain

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Nausea _ jean Paul sartre

#jean paul sartre #nausea #books #book quotes #existentialism

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On the hights of dispair_ emil cioran

#on the hights of despair #emil cioran #philosophie #book quotes

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Nausea _jean Paul sartre

#jean paul sartre #nausea #books #book quotes

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The way you choose to see your world can save your life

be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.

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“(…) dreams of flying and forgetting and dreams of belonging but departing”

— W.S. Merwin, from Still Water in “Garden Time"  

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La sindrome di Stendhal (Dario Argento, 1996)  

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Botticelli’s Venus as part of a slide show on buildings during the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France.

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Anonymous

He’d always been the sensitive kind and it turned out that everyone’s sadness was always his own. It didn’t matter if it concerned him or not, he would partake in it, unwillingly.