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bleeding-daydream · 5 months

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#personal #*#books #coquette #literature #spilled ink #poetry #quotes #words #words words words #on love #lit #the secret history #donna tartt #tsh

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thehopefulquotes · 2 months

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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perfectquote · 3 months

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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thoughtkick · 3 months

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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noctilucentis · 11 months

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Beauty is Terror.

1. first elegy from the duine elegies, by rilke / 2 & 3. the secret history by donna tartt / 4. água viva by clarice lispector / 5. the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky

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jayvespertine · 1 year

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In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

— Donna Tartt

#donna tartt #dark academia #literature #poetry #quotes #poem #light academia #romance #romantic academia #love quotes #memes

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quotefeeling · 7 months

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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resqectable · 1 month

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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the-weeping-birch · 3 months

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"- Death is the mother of beauty.

- And what is beauty?

- Terror."

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt.

#lit #literature #books to read #book recommendations #sad quotes #love quotes #quotes #poem #poetry #the secret history #donna tartt #book quote #books #booklr

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bookreviewcoffee · 2 months

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fall in love 🪷

fall in love with the one poem that made you cry a lot, fall in love with someone or something, the last sip of coffee, the empty bottle of whiskey, the half-written letter and the colour-changing sky.

fall in love with the unpredictable weather and the land that can't always stay stable. fall in love with your best friend's nose when she wrinkles her nose at the smell of half-cooked food and the way she hugs you tightly every time you leave. fall in love with your mum's sparkling eyes and your dad's care. fall in love with everyone and everything, because life is a little less painful when you're in love with it.

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miroana · 11 months

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“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

#“rip to the greek class but I’m different” no you’re not #it’s so funny to me how famous this specific quote is bc people love it for one of three reasons (all equally comical):#A. they have not read the novel and thought the words were pretty (so true but honestly still concerning)#B. they read the novel but took julian’s words at face value and think him brilliant #(this category of people would end up helping henry push bunny into a ravine 100%)#or C. they read the novel and understand well the satirical nature of this quote.#despite this knowledge the act of deeply obsessing over narrow ideas is too tempting to not do it anyways (calling myself out)#congrats! by reading this you now belong to category C #henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

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perfeqt · 4 months

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Donna Tartt

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perfectfeelings · 2 months

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But when I think of you, it’s as if you’ve gone away to sea on a ship—out in a foreign brightness where there are no paths, only stars and sky.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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embeccy · 4 months

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"I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."

- Donna Tartt

#the secret history #donna tartt #foryou #tumblrpost #source: tumblr #quotes #literature #quoteoftheday #poems and poetry #poetry #beautiful quote #love #love quotes #poetic #writers and poets #possessive #deep love #true love #feelings

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libraryoflanie · 11 months

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“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#book quotes #books #books and literature #books & libraries #bookstagram #poetry #poets on tumblr #mahmoud darwish #love quotes #poetsandwriters #the secret history #donna tartt

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minyooon3012 · 3 months

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Okay I’ve finished the secret history what am I gonna do with my life

#TELL ME PLEASE #IDK WHAT TO DO I LOVED EVERY WORD #it was so good #tsh #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #francis abernathy #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #donna tartt #literature #incorrect quotes

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