"The Reading Of All Good Books Is Like Conversation With The Finest Men Of Past Centuries."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

-René Descartes

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5 years ago

I will tell it to you one day and you'll see everything make sense. And please embrace me and whisper sweet things to me.

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4 years ago

Kate Chopin, from “The Awakening” featured in The Awakening & Selected Stories

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4 years ago

I overthink.

I over love.

I over feel.

I'm the sea or I'm nothing.

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5 years ago

on all levels but physical, i am bathing in a bath of rose petals in an abandoned castle with candles illuminating the room and calming but eerie piano music plays from a room down the corridor. i am at peace and the snow is falling outside

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

rainy day in paris // 2019

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3 years ago

"You Must Have Chaos Within You To Give Birth To A Dancing Star."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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oorphic-elizza

4 years ago

how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

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oorphic-elizza

4 years ago

personal moodboard for @partialto

“In your eyes you dearly hold all of night’s allure / Oh you, Joy at the end of my solitude! / Your kisses as sweet as the sweetest fruits / And your voice lulling me like a dreamy prelude / Softly sung by the sea for night’s beauty in bloom.” — Renée Vivien

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oorphic-elizza

5 years ago

“The same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”

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