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kaleb-is-definitely-sane · 2 days

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I need to buy a book. But i need to buy a book with a beautiful cover. But i need money to buy a book with a beautiful cover. But i need a job to get money to buy a book with a beautiful cover. But a job is a lot of work to buy a book with a beautiful cover. So I should rob a bank to buy a book with a beautiful cover. But robbing a bank is more work then getting a job to buy a book with a beautiful cover. So instead i should-

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a-hoe-for-dark-academia · 7 hours

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I'm reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, and homeboy Lockwood just came unannounced and uninvited to Heathcliff's place knowing he dislikes people AND THEN COMPLAINED when people reacted poorly to it and didn't comply to his demands. Like mister, they are not the ones being rude right now.

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aimlesspoet · 3 days

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say what you will about annotating books, but I can't fully process what I'm reading without it sometimes

#also it's pretty #books #bookish #bookworm #classic books #horror books #booklr #literature #english literature #reading #dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia

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thelastrenaissance · 2 days

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Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) is Georges Bernanos's first published novel, appearing in 1926 in Paris.

“We are at that one of life's hours (it strikes for every man) when truth imposes itself, by itself, with irresistible obviousness, when each of us has only to stretch forth his arms to reach at a single bound the surface of shadows, even the sunlight of God. Then is human prudence but a snare and a delusion. Sanctity!' cried out the old priest in a deep voice; 'by saying this word in your presence and for you alone, I know the hurt I inflict upon you! You are not unaware of what sanctity is: a vocation, a calling. Up to the place where God awaits you you will have to climb – climb, or be lost. Expect no human help.”

Georges Bernanos, Under the Sun of Satan

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ellaisfangirling · 2 days

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Happiest Birthday, husband <3

#dark academia #chaotic academia #classic academia #cottage academia #book quotes #books #classic books #bookworm #taylor swift #dark academia quotes #aaron warner #juliette ferrars #shatter me #restore me #ignite me #kenji kishimoto #nazeera ibrahim

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str4wberry-str33t · 5 months

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quick reminder that it’s ok to say that you love reading and that reading is your passion without reading 30+ books in a year. if you connect with books and love the power of the written word, you’re bookish. you don’t need to justify your love of reading.

#booklr #bookworm #literature #reading #goodreads #bookish #books and literature #classic books #books

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lone-nyctophile · 2 years

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- Beau Taplin

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midsummerkissess · 1 year

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a "look babe, i finished a new book" gf and a "tell me all about it" bf

#dark acadamia quotes #light academia #literature quotes #classic books #book aesthetic #romanticism #classic literature #relatable #dark academia books #books and coffee #booklr #books and literature #books and poetry #poetry #dead poets society #long reads

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whilereadingandwalking · 4 months

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Genji is not a perfect person, but there’s a purity to him, a beauty that’s clearly meant to be lauded, particularly in contrast to later chapters. He’s in love with love, a true romantic, and his sometimes unwise affairs are motivated by a true sense of love. He never abandons one of his lovers, which in this time is crucial. No matter the shame it brings to himself, he tries to find a way to honor the women he’s fallen for. He’s charming. No one can not love him, or ultimately forgive him his faults.

The age of Tale of Genji had strict rules of romance—of how flirtations worked (largely intermediaries and poetry), of how commitments worked, of how aloof vs. present it was appropriate to be (it’s good to commit but bad to hoard or become jealous). It was possible to love too much. Genji is accused of this, but he always remembers to care for the people he is responsible for—once he grows up that is.

Early in the text, he neglects his wife, and he also neglects “the Rokujo lady.” The Rokujo lady becomes so jealous and enraged that her spirit begins to sicken his wife. This ghost returns more than once over the course of the text. She has grown sick from obsession and neglect, and Genji pays the price for it. It’s part of what motivates him to always care for the women he romances for the rest of his life.

Later, in the “Uji” chapters, young Kaoru and prince Niou also love too much. Niou is impulsive like Genji but also flighty, and Kaoru is serious like Genji but also obsessive. Both men pursue the women at Uji with insistence that the text can’t quite forgive as it could for Genji. Both, somehow, go too far—perhaps in their attempts to hoard, or in their impatience.

#tale of genji #murasaki shikibu #japanese books #japanese lit #classic books #my book reviews

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artemisyates · 6 months

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Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

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bifrosted-flakes · 2 years

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I think the thing people forget is that the Classics™️ weren’t always classics. There was once a kid who picked up a copy of The Catcher In The Rye and told all their friends about this great new book. There was once a group of teens who went to see Shakespeare’s newest comedy and talked about it all the way home. There was once a young Greek child who sat out on the grass every day to listen to the story of The Odyssey because he had to know what happened to his favorite characters. There was once a man who devoured Dracula in a few days because he was so engrossed in this new work of horror.

Stories are not born with yellowed pages and dog ears, they age with us and are always young to those who read them for the first time.

#classic books

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sillytriumphdragon · 2 months

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