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“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”

— Mahmdou Darwish  (via perrfectly)

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via books-n-quotes)

John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (via amortizing)

“At night, my dreams rhyme, and all day I have an aftertaste of insomnia.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera (Penguin Classics, 2014)

“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I spent the afternoon pleasantly—alone, walking, lying in the grass, reading.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1916

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”

— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (via luthienne)

To Night, Percy Bysshe Shelley 

 "Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon— Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, belovèd Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!“ 

“She preferred most of all to live with flowers and music and to have a book, in quiet solitude.”

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse (trans. Jack Zipes)

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (via neckkiss)

“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”

— Charles Reznikoff, from, “Autobiography: New York,” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, ed. Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press, 2005)