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everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

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“Is it your reputation that’s bothering you? But look at how soon we’re all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us — how capricious they are, how arbitrary.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.3)

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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz }

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. February 1920

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Neil, I'm really enjoying your Bard lectures! It's magical to hear you talk shop, and it really energizing me to write more. Thank you for doing them.

I'm really glad you're enjoying them. I have to deliver the last of them in a few hours, and I'm not sure what I want to say, so I'm stopping and answering a few ask box questions before diving back into the notes.

Wish me luck.

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hello everyone!! if you were wondering, i am in fact alive! College has really beating me down lately but I have felt bad about being gone for so long and am hopefully going to start posting again more regularly. love you all <3 hope youre having a great day/night

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media that uses cannibalism and vampirism as an allegorical expression of desire, love, and hunger >>>>

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the world is so inhospitable to quiet girls

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when vincent van gogh said “but you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more”

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Virginia Woolf's letter to Vita Sackville-West (October 13th, 1927)

#virginia woolf #writing #love letters #lesbian #gay #bisexual #dark academia #light academia #vita sackville west

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I went to a library exhibit for Virginia Woolf today where I got to see many of her original manuscripts and it was very special to me. Woolf is one of my favorite authors and it was just a very surreal moment to be able to experience. It's strange how writing has a way of breathing life back into history and can still affect you, letting centuries slip away like seasons until the years cycle around again and there you are. Maybe feeling the same things and thinking those same thoughts that were thought back when those words were scrolled down. So close yet so far.

#virginia woolf #writing #reading #library #books #time

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It is always exciting to discover new streets.

ig credit: aquietdiary.

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Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

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Osip Mandelstam, from Voronezh Notebooks; “Rome”

Text ID: Today—angels. Tomorrow—maggots.